A review by catbrigand
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

3.0

It was…fine. It had a lot of elements that had a lot more potential than is realized. Magic is a normalized part of this world, but it’s not a normalized part of my world, and I would have really appreciated some context. The Manchester Act is this huge thing looming over the MC’s head, but readers don’t even know what it is until 2/3 of the way through, nor do we really know what the implications of it will be. It’s telling that this book is so short but took me a solid 6 days to read, but it’s also telling that I didn’t DNF it.