A review by sbbrown25477
A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand

Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.

Honestly I tried to get to the 100 page mark but i couldn’t even get to the 40 pg mark. By page 20, I frankly just wasn’t hooked by the story. I didn’t care about the characters mostly because the beginning starts with traveling to a destination with telling of the backstory vs showing. It is a tricky needle to thread to open a story with a moment of endless travel. It frankly just isn’t  a hooking event, thus it suffers from wordy narration. A reader should be caring about the opening moment so that they can begin a bond with a universe, a character, etc. I need something to grip onto so I can dive into the story. There is a symbiotic bond between the reader and the characters. What they feel, you should feel. If the main characters are bored of travel, you are going to latch onto that boredom which resulted in me not giving a crap about the characters. Place to improve: less vague setting. Either the scene is a dull with an active backdrop or the scene is active but not both. With tons of fantasy novels having settings with horse drawn carriages, high society girls in pretty dresses, etc. everything can’t be open ended or the book will not standout from the stack. DNF and I most likely will be unhauling this book.