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A review by alexpeter2795
Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen
2.0
This unfortunately did not do it for me.
I felt like so much of this book was muddy and slow for no reason. It felt like the world building was occurring simply so that there was world building, the romance aspect was weird because they weren't really enemies to lovers and I don't feel like their romance was actually believable.
I read a lot of fantasy and a lot of YA fantasy and while this was a decent full story debut, it did feel like taking aspects from every other YA fantasy and putting it in the book.
Also I would not consider this "steamy" I feel like this is very YA in the sense that anyone in the YA age range could read it, although there are some instances of swearing.
I think this is a good start and I'd like to see what this author does next.
I felt like so much of this book was muddy and slow for no reason. It felt like the world building was occurring simply so that there was world building, the romance aspect was weird because they weren't really enemies to lovers and I don't feel like their romance was actually believable.
I read a lot of fantasy and a lot of YA fantasy and while this was a decent full story debut, it did feel like taking aspects from every other YA fantasy and putting it in the book.
Also I would not consider this "steamy" I feel like this is very YA in the sense that anyone in the YA age range could read it, although there are some instances of swearing.
I think this is a good start and I'd like to see what this author does next.