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A Word so Fitly Spoken by T.A. Lawrence

8 reviews

gsedlar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

THIS BOOK MADE ME LOVE READING AGAIN!! I had just finished some longer series, like Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, and Flame in the Mist, and I was having trouble finding books to keep me engaged. But when I found this book, it was great for getting me back into reading. The only other book I would say that matches this one is Six of Crows. If you like any dark fantasy books, and don't like a lot of spice, this book is perfect for you! Definitely a longer read but 100% worth it for all the plot twists.

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emotional funny tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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aplain's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

2.75

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booksalacarte's review against another edition

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hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A word so fitly spoken-3⭐️ 2🌶️ (clean YA fantasy)

One stunning bride.

One wedding.

One night with the king.

One execution come morning.

Rinse and repeat.

When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning.

Unless…

Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.

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✨My Opinion✨

This is a dual POV, clean fantasy romance retelling of 1001 nights, just with Fae and magic.

The magic system is interesting, but not everything has been revealed. So the first portion of magic revealed is about this sentient story weaving magic that bonded to a human. The idea of it being aware and able to hold conversations and be a witness to a being’s life, even the private parts is….. uncomfortable.

As for the characters, Asha was a fine heroine. She was self sacrificing while working through pride, which was very interesting. I enjoyed seeing her work through the different prejudices she had against Kierian.

Seeing the typical Fae issue of not being able to lie worked around and through was fun. Kierian was a tough cookie to figure out. You didn’t know if you could trust him or not. It was fun!

I didn’t love the story within the story, but I understand that it was necessary, and helpful for the context of the plot. But for the longest time it felt like filler, therefore annoyed me more than anything… even after it was revealed to be important to the plot.

Structurally, some of the chapter divisions are put in awkward places and messed with the flow of the story. Annoying, but not a deal breaker.

The book delivered the tropes that I expected, one bed, he falls first, “who did this to you”, enemies to “lovers”, betrayal, slow burn, treason, martyrdom, and a few more.

I started reading for the sister taking her little sister’s place plot.
I kept reading to see if the two main characters ever actually got together.

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prettynerdy3's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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its_thekla's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This story starts out derivative and dull. It takes nearly half the book for something to actually happen, and even after that so much could be trimmed down. The incessant use of "male" vs "girl" drove me absolutely bonkers. "Female" was smattered around to refer to the women in the story, but my goodness, every man was "that male" or "the male". Every time. It was almost exhausting as how much the characters either spent vomiting, or thinking about vomiting.
I am usually a sucker for the story-withing-a-story thing. This one didn't quite work for me. I'm not saying I didn't like it, I just thought it's inclusion was poorly executed.
The setting was fine, the characters were ok, their development interesting but this was absolutely not a story for me. At one point, Asha refers to herself as an "activist". But girl: you're the queen and throughout the duration of the story all she did was use her martyr complex to fall back on all her choices? No ma'am. You can't be an "activist" when you spend all day cooped up in your palace reading or exploring instead of trying to make a difference for the people you tried to convince us you cared so much about in the slums.
Just so much wasted potential and I will gladly skip the rest of this authors books.

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adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.0

This is going to contain a few spoilers so read at your own risk

The first 65% of this book is bad, like boring and bad!!! At that point I’d read 380pages of blandness, that has nothing really that original in the characters as they all feel flat. It was so many words but said nothing and by this point I was not sure what age group its target is. It’s feels like a New Adult but the characters sometimes act like teenagers. It’s not really an enemies to lovers book as the main “love interests” hardly ever TALK TO EACH OTHER and its not really a “Beauty and the Beast” retelling even though it tries so hard to be.

Then we get the next 35% and “well that happened” is how I can describe it because it was just a mess. It was a unique mess, I’d give it that, because I didn’t see the story going in that direction at all. The plot threw me for a curveball, but it jumped around so much with my emotions, and left me in the position of having to figure out so much, and decipher what was actually going on. I felt like I was being pulled in so many directions that it was just exhausting, trying to figure out who was right, who was wrong, who was telling the truth, who wasn’t and I ended up being just annoyed. I felt myself saying “please can this just get wrapped up now because I’m tired of you just trying to shock me for “shock-factor” sake.” It’s like the Author had so many ideas, and instead of rooting out which ideas would be the best she just threw them all at the wall and hoped one of them would stick. However that plan just introduced potholes, confusion and boarders on absurdity.

The story is a lose retelling of 1001 Nights and follows Asha, a human girl in a world ruled by the Fae. Asha however has a secret, one that left half her face disfigured and missing an eye. She possesses an Old Magic, a magic that takes over her voice when she tells a story. At the same time the King, Kiran has made an decree that he will murder a young virgin every month, the day after he marries her unless 1 woman willingly gives herself over to be executed the day after their marriage. Because Asha’s sister Dinah is so beautiful, Asha sacrifices herself and marries the King. The night before her execution, Kiran grants her one last request, and her request is to tell her sister one more story. Unbeknownst to Asha the king eavesdrops on the story and next morning, expecting her execution, Kiran pardons her for one more day, hoping to hear the end of the story.

There were two things in this book that I did like. The first was the magic system and the world building. It is extremely unique and has so much potential to be great if it was only utilised correctly. The second is the way the story that Asha tells through her magic is interwoven into the plot and becomes plot. I found myself wanting the book to switch back to that story as I was more invested to read about Mother and Farin’s story, than whatever the hell was going on between Asha and Kiran.

Asha annoyed me so much! She spends the first half of the book being angry by how the King treats his subjects and how he doesn’t help them, and he has all the power. But when she is in this position of power to help then she does absolutely nothing and just sits in the library, all day, moping and reading books.

Besides, having one or two chapters from Kiran’s point of view, we as the reader don’t really know who he is who in his book. His entire character and motivations are built on the fact that his father was this wicked cruel man who shaped him to be the same. You are very often told he is wicked and cruel but besides “one vision” see nothing of it. He hardly speaks and you are never shown how he is a monster. We hardly really ever see his character to form the opinion you are expecting to believe. I honestly felt more attachment for his sister, Lydia and Fin (his twin brother) than I do for him. Asha and Fin would’ve made such a better couple because they were actually friends and devlop into caring for one another. Kiran one day wanted to kill her, because all woman lie, and the next he was full on “you touch her you die”. There wasn’t really any development in between those moments especially for Asha who up until basically the last 5 pages still hated him -_-

Can I just say if you’re going to have characters flirt with each other please make sure that they are legal. Fin is 24, Dinah is 16. These two characters flirt with each other and it’s hinted that there may be a relationship between the two forming. This is not okay! Making an excuse in the text and chucking it up to “Oh well humans always marry their woman to a man twice their age” is not an acceptable excuse to have an adult flirting with a child. Nothing could’ve stopped the author from making the characters slightly older and making Dinah 18.

Another frustrating thing is that Asha is too educated. Let me explain…She very clearly states that she has only had three years of education and barely knows how to write. This inability to write is a big thing in the plot. But the way that she speaks, her knowledge about the world and only ever having read one book, (even with the magic of the stories) doesn’t explain how she is as educated as she she seems. I’m not saying, make her stupid but the contradiction of the characters background and behaviour didn’t seem to work.

I can see why some people like this book. But it’s not for me. I might be tempted to pick up the next book when it comes out since it was not utterly awful and the world is good. The writing was good, it just was EXTREMELY LONG and didn’t have anything really engaging to make this stand out. It’s actually pretty forgettable in my opinion. With a little bit of “cleaning” and a few more rounds of editing, this could have been great.

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book had a lot of twists that I wasn’t expecting!

I had no idea that Gwenyth was still alive and that Az was a villain the whole time! It really helped add to the confusion and the feeling that you can’t trust any of them.

I’m hoping that some how in the series they figure out a way for humans and fae to have the same lifespan. It always makes me sad to picture the main couple having one be 80 and one be forever 25

“Because if it’s true, then I fell in love with a monster all on my own. Without anyone’s help.”

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