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Twin Crowns, by Catherine Doyle

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anjaafern's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

ellabella313's review against another edition

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4.0

The story was interesting and well paced making sure you knew what was happening with both twins throughout the whole book. Wren is the superior twin and I think a lot of people will agree. While Rose did get better as the book progressed I feel as though she still has some development yet to come, I just didn't like her constant thought of she's the princess and everyone should bow down to her and she owns everything. Other then that I enjoyed the characters and the story. I was also in a reading slump while reading this so it took me like a month to read but I think that was just me and nothing to do with the book.

bookish_penguin's review against another edition

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adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.0

olive_re3d's review against another edition

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adventurous funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

indigoberry's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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I am clearly missing something because this is catastrophically bad. It's written like a children's book, the prose is childish, the plot is childish, they use 'hissing seaweed' as a curse?! Wren is quite literally the worse 'spy' to ever exist. She replaces her sister who she has been trained to copy and within an hour she's messing it up. Juggling, oops. Cinnamon, oops. Swimming, oops... they deserved to get found out!

All the characters are one dimensional and the language is so childish. I found Percy Jackson more mature than this even though they weirdly crowbar some heavy petting and a dick joke. So so strange! You saw the romances coming from 100 miles away and the politics was, well, non existent? So this main bad guy has told everyone witches are terrible for 18 years, they've killed them in horrible ways and suddenly some witches turn up and are like 'he was wrong!' And the nobles and peasants are just like.. what... oh OK, that's fine.

The ONLY reason this didn't get DNF'd is because it was a physical book and I will definitely not be reading the next one.