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When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

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

3.0

I think this book is way overhyped. It’s hard to even get into it, and after finishing it, it feels like the first quarter or so was completely wasted and unnecessary, because the things that happen happen, and don’t really matter ever again. It feels completely forced. But I kept pushing through, because I saw potential in the story. But that’s all it was. Potential. Everything in this book feels forced and throughout the whole thing I constantly felt like I was the only one left out on an inside joke, and like I was constantly missing important things (that didn’t actually happen). The fmc keeps making stupid decisions that are never explained and feel so random it actually gave me a migraine sometimes and the whole (SPOILER) memory loss trope feels completely forced and unnatural. I also never got around to not finding the supposed love story between Kaan and Elluin/Raeve totally toxic and desperate. To me it doesn’t in the least feel like they were made for each other. (SPOILER END) 
So generally would not recommend. It is also extremely hard to get into to the book at all and not just because it’s not a necessary plot line, but because of the world building. That’s usually not even a bad thing, but again so forced… uh 🙄 even after reading the glossary at least eight times I still had unexplained questions to EVERYTHING…. 
Okay gonna quit raging but I could go on… in my opinion just not worth 550 pages…
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