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January 2023 Book Review Part 1

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Updated: Oct 21, 2023


A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶

- Excellent writing and editing

- Well written main and side characters

- Highly engaging storyline

- Great world building

- Short chapters


- Slow beginning

- Develops into an easy read

- Unfulfilling romance build

- Dense description which made for a heavy read


A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶🌶🌶

- Fantastic opening

- Short chapters

- Great writing and editing

- Highly engaging story

- Fulfilling slow burn romance

- Amazing and unexpected ending

- Well written main and side characters

- Great world building extension

- Written in parts


- Dense description which made for a heavy read


A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶🌶

- Written in parts

- Short chapters

- Great use of returning characters

- Highly engaging story

- Well written main and side characters

- Great extension on world building


- Small plot hole

- Minor editing mistakes

- Dense description which made for a heavy read

- Sweet but odd ending


A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶

- Easy to read

- Cute storyline

- Funny

- Short chapters

- Character POV chapters

- Well written main and side characters

- Great world building extension


- Minor plot line that contributes to the overall series

- Small plot hole


A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶🌶🌶🌶

- Written in parts

- Character perspective scenes/chapters

- Amazing message that connects to readers

- Fantastic fight scene/s choreography

- Well written main and side characters

- Great world building extension


- Longer chapters

- Imbalance of protagonists growth

- Imbalance of plot vs relationship building


Twin Crowns by Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

- Great world building

- Funny

- Highly engaging storyline

- Cute and satisfying romance builds

- Fantastically written slow burn romance

- Alternating third-person perspective chapters

- Excellent writing and editing


- End fight scene felt chaotic to read

- Predictable plot (no major twists)


The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

DID NOT FINISH - 103/351 PAGES - WILL ATTEMPT AGAIN

- Story told by narrator

- Fourth-wall breaks that ruin story flow

- Inconsistencies within story

- Story is not the same as the movie trilogy, both in events and toone which made for a frustrating and upsetting read

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