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A review by authorvperry
The Unseelie Crown by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
3.0
Didnt dislike it but far from loved it.
What I Liked:
•Often Poetic, yet unstuffy or stilted prose
•an overall unique and interesting, to my reading experiences, story
•the world and magic are wonderful
Disliked:
•Character development is progressing too slowly, if at all
•Issues with Abigail’s character (more below)
•The dialogue doesn’t always carry the story along and sometimes seems utterly pointless.
•This book could’ve been written in several chapters as the beginning of the next because while the plot moved forward a bit, it didn’t do so *enough* to warrant an entire book
Spoilers**
I like that Abigail turned fae and is Seelie, no less. But I can already see where this series is headed. It's indeed predictable.
Also, there has been no true character development. Our lovely Bloody Prince is still a brute- borderline stupid but violent and cruel. It's not that I mind that he is cruel, I don't at all. I actually like that he is. But having realized that he loves Abigail, even learning what hurt and fear feel like, he is the just the same toward her and nothing progressed.
Abigail is... Damn annoying. I understand the “Life” and “Death” thing we have going on and how those two are meant to be opposites. But the author truly paints her as a coward. I am not sure one can be as virtuous as Abigail is supposed to be and be a coward at the same time. Even as she offered herself up to death to buy others time, it doesn’t feel like enough to redeem her as we constantly witness her as nothing more than sniveling.
Can we talk about sexuality in this book? It is typical for fae to be very comfortable in their sexuality and that is not an issue that I have. But some of the small scenes in this book seem to serve absolutely no purpose. We get it, Abigail is the shy, blushing once-mortal- it's shown to us so much that it gets old. This basically goes back to character development- the small sexual scenes (including just snippets of dialogue featuring innuendos to make her blush), would have been better served to show us Abigail becoming more fae and less mortal.
With all that said, I am not here to slam the book. I liked it just enough that I will continue on to book 3 of the series. And, as stated above, I truly enjoy the author’s writing style and prose.
What I Liked:
•Often Poetic, yet unstuffy or stilted prose
•an overall unique and interesting, to my reading experiences, story
•the world and magic are wonderful
Disliked:
•Character development is progressing too slowly, if at all
•Issues with Abigail’s character (more below)
•The dialogue doesn’t always carry the story along and sometimes seems utterly pointless.
•This book could’ve been written in several chapters as the beginning of the next because while the plot moved forward a bit, it didn’t do so *enough* to warrant an entire book
Spoilers**
I like that Abigail turned fae and is Seelie, no less. But I can already see where this series is headed. It's indeed predictable.
Also, there has been no true character development. Our lovely Bloody Prince is still a brute- borderline stupid but violent and cruel. It's not that I mind that he is cruel, I don't at all. I actually like that he is. But having realized that he loves Abigail, even learning what hurt and fear feel like, he is the just the same toward her and nothing progressed.
Abigail is... Damn annoying. I understand the “Life” and “Death” thing we have going on and how those two are meant to be opposites. But the author truly paints her as a coward. I am not sure one can be as virtuous as Abigail is supposed to be and be a coward at the same time. Even as she offered herself up to death to buy others time, it doesn’t feel like enough to redeem her as we constantly witness her as nothing more than sniveling.
Can we talk about sexuality in this book? It is typical for fae to be very comfortable in their sexuality and that is not an issue that I have. But some of the small scenes in this book seem to serve absolutely no purpose. We get it, Abigail is the shy, blushing once-mortal- it's shown to us so much that it gets old. This basically goes back to character development- the small sexual scenes (including just snippets of dialogue featuring innuendos to make her blush), would have been better served to show us Abigail becoming more fae and less mortal.
With all that said, I am not here to slam the book. I liked it just enough that I will continue on to book 3 of the series. And, as stated above, I truly enjoy the author’s writing style and prose.