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A review by veri98
Wytch & Prinze by Kassandra Lea
3.0
3.5/5
An eARC of this book was given to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Synopsis: “Medium Jacob Wytch lives in the forest with his fluffy dog Gruff and his ghostly fairy godmother Amelie. When he gets a call from his friend Renwick Prinze, he panics. Jacob has been pining for Renwick longer than he cares to admit. Instead of admitting, however, he listens to Amelie and begins to sabotage Renwick’s beds in hopes of inviting his dashing friend to sleep with him.”
Once again, a synopsis that tells the story from start to finish. It’s cute, well written, and the plot was sweet. Although, when I was reading it I couldn’t NOT think of how much it reminded me of another short story: The Errant Prince by Sasha L. Miller. There is a magician, a soldier, they fall for each other, they try to tell their feelings to one another, they end up becoming lovers; Fin. There is a similarity between these two stories.
Could it have been a better story? Sure, but the way Jacob sabotaged those beds could have been less clichéd. I mean, marbles?
The only character that I liked was Gruff. He was the only sensible one in the whole story – after all, he is a dog. Amelie was childish, even though she is supposed to be around 16-17. Jacob is an introvert without a backbone. Renwick is a skittish teenager with confidence problems. It wasn’t a really good story. It was cute. Nothing more, and that’s the problem. It didn’t really have a sound structure that made the story memorable.
An eARC of this book was given to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Synopsis: “Medium Jacob Wytch lives in the forest with his fluffy dog Gruff and his ghostly fairy godmother Amelie. When he gets a call from his friend Renwick Prinze, he panics. Jacob has been pining for Renwick longer than he cares to admit. Instead of admitting, however, he listens to Amelie and begins to sabotage Renwick’s beds in hopes of inviting his dashing friend to sleep with him.”
Once again, a synopsis that tells the story from start to finish. It’s cute, well written, and the plot was sweet. Although, when I was reading it I couldn’t NOT think of how much it reminded me of another short story: The Errant Prince by Sasha L. Miller. There is a magician, a soldier, they fall for each other, they try to tell their feelings to one another, they end up becoming lovers; Fin. There is a similarity between these two stories.
Could it have been a better story? Sure, but the way Jacob sabotaged those beds could have been less clichéd. I mean, marbles?
The only character that I liked was Gruff. He was the only sensible one in the whole story – after all, he is a dog. Amelie was childish, even though she is supposed to be around 16-17. Jacob is an introvert without a backbone. Renwick is a skittish teenager with confidence problems. It wasn’t a really good story. It was cute. Nothing more, and that’s the problem. It didn’t really have a sound structure that made the story memorable.