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A review by bigpeng
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
3.0
2.5. This book felt like a melting pot of all the YA fantasy books I’ve read. Im honestly getting plot points mixed up with Powerless and Fourth Wing and Bridge Kingdom LMAO.
I think if I binged this book in one setting (and read it before other YA fantasies), I’d probably be more into it.
MY BIGGEST ISH - (no spoilers) but the romance ended up being integral to the plot line. Many things hinged on the relationships between these characters. AND BECAUSE OF THIS, one would think you need your romance plot line to be strong, believable, etc etc right?
WRONG!
I genuinely thought the romance was underdeveloped and lacking in any sort of tension. SO when home girl author decided to hinge the ENTIRE plot (rebellions, political maneuvering, your classic YA fantasy conflicts) on these godforsaken romances, I was like ??????????????? I feel zero emotions for these relationships why do they hold so much weight in the book???
Maybe I’m not making sense because I’m trying to not spoil LOL.
I just think this book should have committed to the Romantasy genre because I just did not believe a lot of these conflicts, and the ending didn’t even gag me because I didn’t actually care about I the characters!!!
The more I write this review the more I think I should bump down the rating haha. Really working myself up here! But overall it was still a dece book and all respect to the author for coming up with this
I think if I binged this book in one setting (and read it before other YA fantasies), I’d probably be more into it.
MY BIGGEST ISH - (no spoilers) but the romance ended up being integral to the plot line. Many things hinged on the relationships between these characters. AND BECAUSE OF THIS, one would think you need your romance plot line to be strong, believable, etc etc right?
WRONG!
I genuinely thought the romance was underdeveloped and lacking in any sort of tension. SO when home girl author decided to hinge the ENTIRE plot (rebellions, political maneuvering, your classic YA fantasy conflicts) on these godforsaken romances, I was like ??????????????? I feel zero emotions for these relationships why do they hold so much weight in the book???
Maybe I’m not making sense because I’m trying to not spoil LOL.
I just think this book should have committed to the Romantasy genre because I just did not believe a lot of these conflicts, and the ending didn’t even gag me because I didn’t actually care about I the characters!!!
The more I write this review the more I think I should bump down the rating haha. Really working myself up here! But overall it was still a dece book and all respect to the author for coming up with this