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meigothic 's review for:
The Gilded Crown
by Marianne Gordon
Disclaimer: I received a review copy for free via Netgalley, and am voluntarily leaving my honest thoughts. Many thanks to Harper Voyager for the opportunity!
This is a pretty nice debut from Gordon! However, while I enjoyed a good amount of it, I'd say that I was a little disappointed overall. The plot felt a little convenient in the beginning, which made things kind of give a young adult feel, but it was a nice buildup to the rest of the events. I absolutely loved Death in this book, and feel that he compelled me the most so it made it hard for me to want to follow through with the rest if that makes sense because he was THAT compelling and interesting.
That being said, of course I could appreciate a messy dynamic and did enjoy Hellevir and Sullivain to a degree as well, but felt like I wasn't as drawn in to them as I really wanted to be since I feel it lacked a bit of depth on the motivation side. I'm also just such a sucker for Death in books that it almost made me wish that he was a she and was the love interest instead because their conversations together where more interesting to me, and I felt really bad.
This is a pretty nice debut from Gordon! However, while I enjoyed a good amount of it, I'd say that I was a little disappointed overall. The plot felt a little convenient in the beginning, which made things kind of give a young adult feel, but it was a nice buildup to the rest of the events. I absolutely loved Death in this book, and feel that he compelled me the most so it made it hard for me to want to follow through with the rest if that makes sense because he was THAT compelling and interesting.
That being said, of course I could appreciate a messy dynamic and did enjoy Hellevir and Sullivain to a degree as well, but felt like I wasn't as drawn in to them as I really wanted to be since I feel it lacked a bit of depth on the motivation side. I'm also just such a sucker for Death in books that it almost made me wish that he was a she and was the love interest instead because their conversations together where more interesting to me, and I felt really bad.