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A review by kayladaniella
A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford
4.0
4/5 stars
The concept for this book was really cool yet lacking a little bit. The pacing at the beginning was quite slow. I didn't like the whole Jewish aspect because it doesn't make sense in this world. It was really cool having Jews in a fantasy world, but there were no other established religions or reasons of persecution and antisemitism of them, in said fantasy world. So it was kinda cool, but also kinda weird. It felt like it was just there for the sake of it.
Other than that, I really did enjoy the story past the first chapter (which was kinda confusing because the synopsis mentions Princess Imogen but then the first chapter opens with a girl named Seraphina and you're just like who are you because it's not explained first thing). I also did find some of the characters confusing through audiobook, but that might just be a me thing.
The tension between Nico and Seraphina were to die for. Both of them pretending to be royalty while neither of them actually are. And it was written so splendidly too. The only thing about the characters that I didn't like was that EVERY FIVE SECONDS it was mentioned that Nico was blushing. Every emotion he felt- blushing. Literally, it was mentioned multiple times per like every chapter he's in. WAY too much.
Overall though, it was a solid engaging enough story. I loved the story line of them being trapped inside a castle and having to pretend everything is ok. It was super unique which I greatly appreciated as well.
The concept for this book was really cool yet lacking a little bit. The pacing at the beginning was quite slow. I didn't like the whole Jewish aspect because it doesn't make sense in this world. It was really cool having Jews in a fantasy world, but there were no other established religions or reasons of persecution and antisemitism of them, in said fantasy world. So it was kinda cool, but also kinda weird. It felt like it was just there for the sake of it.
Other than that, I really did enjoy the story past the first chapter (which was kinda confusing because the synopsis mentions Princess Imogen but then the first chapter opens with a girl named Seraphina and you're just like who are you because it's not explained first thing). I also did find some of the characters confusing through audiobook, but that might just be a me thing.
The tension between Nico and Seraphina were to die for. Both of them pretending to be royalty while neither of them actually are. And it was written so splendidly too. The only thing about the characters that I didn't like was that EVERY FIVE SECONDS it was mentioned that Nico was blushing. Every emotion he felt- blushing. Literally, it was mentioned multiple times per like every chapter he's in. WAY too much.
Overall though, it was a solid engaging enough story. I loved the story line of them being trapped inside a castle and having to pretend everything is ok.