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A review by sandmoe
The Crowns of Croswald by D.E. Night
2.0
I was given an arc by Stories Untold in exchange for an honest review.
1.5 stars.
There was a lot going on in this book. I wanna start off with something positive and say that I loved the illustrations at the start of every chapter, and I could really tell that a lot of hard work went into the making of this world.
At the start of this book you were immediately given a lot of information at once (which is to be expected in a fantasy book), but a lot of information was held off, and a lot of things just got left unexplained. There was not a lot of monologue, but when there was it didn't really feel natural, it was kind of weird and awkward. The lack of communicating between the main person and her friends also made it less convincing that they were actual friends. I did not come out of this book feeling like I really knew any of the characters, they were mostly bland and one dimensional in my opinion.
There was one thing in this book that really fired me up, and that's Woodley Butterlove. Being fat is NOT a personality trait. Lets start off with the fact that his name is Butterlove, yes that's his actual name, he is fat and his name is Butterlove h ah ha fun. His entire character was just that he was fat and liked to eat? He had NOTHING else going for him. Nothing. Woodley was in a total of four scenes, and in all four scenes he is only either eating or being bribed with food. Theres zero reasons for this character to exist, he is only there to be made fun of for being fat and liking food and I hated it SO MUCH. It's not hard to not stereotype fat people or to not ridicule them.
The book also sat up several different plots which just gets solved right away, off page, with underwhelming explanations. This book is was whimsical, but not in a Wayward Children kind of way, but in a "what the hell is happening to me in my life" kind of way.
1.5 stars.
There was a lot going on in this book. I wanna start off with something positive and say that I loved the illustrations at the start of every chapter, and I could really tell that a lot of hard work went into the making of this world.
At the start of this book you were immediately given a lot of information at once (which is to be expected in a fantasy book), but a lot of information was held off, and a lot of things just got left unexplained. There was not a lot of monologue, but when there was it didn't really feel natural, it was kind of weird and awkward. The lack of communicating between the main person and her friends also made it less convincing that they were actual friends. I did not come out of this book feeling like I really knew any of the characters, they were mostly bland and one dimensional in my opinion.
There was one thing in this book that really fired me up, and that's Woodley Butterlove. Being fat is NOT a personality trait. Lets start off with the fact that his name is Butterlove, yes that's his actual name, he is fat and his name is Butterlove h ah ha fun. His entire character was just that he was fat and liked to eat? He had NOTHING else going for him. Nothing. Woodley was in a total of four scenes, and in all four scenes he is only either eating or being bribed with food. Theres zero reasons for this character to exist, he is only there to be made fun of for being fat and liking food and I hated it SO MUCH. It's not hard to not stereotype fat people or to not ridicule them.
The book also sat up several different plots which just gets solved right away, off page, with underwhelming explanations. This book is was whimsical, but not in a Wayward Children kind of way, but in a "what the hell is happening to me in my life" kind of way.