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this extended flashback is way too extended and i don't know where there needs to be a 500 page flashback in the middle of a thousand page long book anyway. do something different, mess with the structure of it. the way this was structured didn't even work as a fanfic because i remember this is around when i abandoned the fanfic.

I don't think this book got a substantial developmental edit between when it was fanfic and when it became trad pub, because the author kept the bizarre decision to have the middle of the book be a 500 page extended flashback that immediately guts any tension of the previously established narrative.

I actually have finished this, but I also dug up the fanfic it's "based on" to do a side-by-side comparison and boy do i have thoughts on that!

well that escalated quickly

So far pretty meh as far as fantasy books go, I think I'd be enjoying it more if it wasn't YA

a lot of the plot developments in this thing are just kind of like That's It?? also the author oversimplified the war of the roses and doesn't know that henry vi died in the tower of london, not on a battlefield

this book is both taking place in a fictional land, uses our irl date system, has *french*, and is also an extremely good case study for why the disney retelling thing is never handled well considering some of the changes being made to the story

this has certainly been A Book so far

if she's not a secret fae princess then i'll be surprised tbh

she pulled a gun on him and didn't even know about turning the safety off