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brinkley's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
reddeddy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism
Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Dysphoria
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail
elskabee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Unfortunately, the book suffered from focusing on too many characters and so only superficially dealt with each characters conflicts and romance. In fact, it was really difficult for the first 50% of the book to keep track of each character (who they are, who they like, their personality) because there's FOUR character perspectives that it's roughly equally split between and they're all young women who are either in the royal family or closely tied to it. Not to mention everyone is cheating on everyone (not judging but it makes it even harder to keep track) or in some other secret relationship. So why did we need four characters?
I also don't feel like this needed to be a royalty focused book? So much time is spent on relationship drama and hardly any on the royalty stuff? It's just kind of a backdrop that has only some impact on the plot so it felt more Gossip Girl than say, Red, White, and Royal Blue. I honestly think this would make a better TV show than book series just because of the way it's structured. But that's just my opinion lol
Graphic: Infidelity and Death of parent
Moderate: Chronic illness and Toxic friendship
Minor: Sexism
katleenfraser03's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship
boba_nbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death of parent