cidkid 's review for:

Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian

3.0

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Honestly, I am a little disappointed with this book. I give it three stars because at least it kept me interested the whole time reading it. However, I think the main character Thora, Theo, Theodosia, whatever you want to call her, was an annoying perspective to read from. I thoroughly enjoyed the other characters but for some reason I found Theo sooooo irritating. She was dragging her feet through the whole damn book. And the two things she's tasked with- she doesn't even go through with. She has Elpis poison Cress and the Theyn- which horribly backfires ( poor Elpis )- and then she can't even go through with killing Soren- even though he is willing to let her do it. He had accepted his fate and she doesn't do it. She leaves it to Blaise to go through with it (even though that doesn't happen because she gets captured). I loved the scene with her holding the dagger to Soren though. I think Soren is so sweet and deserves better. Even Cress has a better character development. She goes from a simple girl who is pretty and whatnot, to a woman vowing for revenge. I dig it.
I'm hating on Theo hard but she wasn't a completely awful character. I liked that her character endured so many beatings/whippings and even killing her father so she could survive and help her people.
All in all I give it a 3/5. Some parts of the book had me questioning why I was even reading it. But overall I enjoyed the book and will read the next book in the series. I hope it can redeem Theo in my eyes.