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Once & Future by Cori McCarthy, A.R. Capetta
2.0

2.75 I love Aurthurian legend and I was excited about this female-lead retelling. I also like funny books and even the odd pop-culture reference. This one was just... too much of those things? I feel like it tried to be TOO zany and just came off as cheesy and heavy-handed. It started as a fairly light-hearted YA and then nose-dived into adult sexual themes and character deaths to the point that I was questioning if one author wrote the first half and the other the second half because it was weirdly disjointed.

Despite that, I was still able to finish it and when I wasn't cringing, it was an okay time. Won't be reading the second book though.