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A review by kimu23
Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
2.25
I think YA authors just don’t understand what is ‘morally grey’. Violet is not morally grey or an antiheroine. It genuinely feels as if YA authors want to make ‘morally grey badass female character’ based on vibes because they are never brave in actually making an unlikable female character.
Violet is not ambitious or driven enough for me. She only reacted to the plot happening and never do anything herself. Cyrus is a prince charming, someone honorable, kind and unfortunately a bit two dimensional. I don’t know enough about the rest of the side characters.
About Cyrus’s betrayal, a lot of readers are rightfully mad at him and the author for moving on from it too fast. I’m one of them too but I saw some readers don’t understand Cyrus’s motivation in betraying Violet. I feel like that’s because the readers thought Violet did nothing wrong in being loyal to the king and conveniently forgotting that the king is the ruler of a colonizer kingdom. Like, he literally mentioned it multiple times that he wanted to colonize other countries. Cyrus is still wrong in betraying her and the author is wrong for redeeming him too quickly, but Violet IS a coward for continuing helping the king.
Honestly this book is more of a lost potential. If only there was at least one aspect its excelled at, then I could actually enjoy it
Violet is not ambitious or driven enough for me. She only reacted to the plot happening and never do anything herself. Cyrus is a prince charming, someone honorable, kind and unfortunately a bit two dimensional. I don’t know enough about the rest of the side characters.
Honestly this book is more of a lost potential. If only there was at least one aspect its excelled at, then I could actually enjoy it