A review by indigoberry
Twin Crowns by Katherine Webber, Catherine Doyle

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

Spoiler 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.