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Becoming Crone by Lydia M. Hawke
2.0

I love the premise of this book. It's a traditional Urban Fantasy Chosen One story, with the twist that our chosen one is 60 years old.

Every moment of this book felt like it was firmly Doylist with no Watsonian. Doylist = something happens in the story because that's what the author wanted to happen. Watsonian = something happened in the story because the characters made it happen, because the sequence of events made it happen. The scenes never felt like they were happening because of who the characters were. It felt like it was happing because this was the next plot beat on the outline.

Thanks to Netgalley and IBPA for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.