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Fantacy: Daughter of Fate
by Vanessa Marie Caron, Vanessa Marie Caron
⭐️⭐️ / 2 stars
Thank you to the author for providing me with an eARC of this book via BookOfMatchesMedia in exchange for an honest review!
Fantacy is a story about Arianne, who finds herself transported from her mother’s attic to the world of Fantacy. Here she is believed to be the Fated One, who’ll find the heir to the throne.
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the ability to move forward despite that fear.”
The author had said that the book is a bit like Narnia and I couldn’t agree more. With Arianna being transported to another fantasy world, it immediately reminded me of that. I like books with those kinds of events and adventures so I had high hopes, which weren’t met unfortunately.
The book was very fast paced with a lot of events happening that I couldn’t always follow. It definitely gives you that sense of adventure, but it felt like a bit too much. I would’ve liked the events that did happen to have been slowed down and fleshed out a bit more.
While the world itself felt very beautiful, because of the rushed and fast pace, it almost felt like a lot of the world was descripted quickly and after a while it became a bit repetitive since all the characters did was travel. Certain plot points from the synopsis were hardly present as well, Arianna struggling with her identity, Arianna wanting to know about her father , trying to find the heir to the throne .
The same could be said about the information, which was over explained and shared a lot. I think it would’ve been better if we’d been shown the things and information instead of the characters constantly explaining everything. A lot of POV switches happened, were for an alinea suddenly another characters POV was written and thus their emotions and thoughts were written instead of shown through the eyes of another character. A lot of emotions felt and situations were not shown but told, and it made this book feel very much like a children’s book to be honest. Classed as a YA book, with teens reading this, we are smart enough to made those kinds of connections and don’t have to be told everything as if we can’t figure it out ourselves.
On the topic of the book feeling very young, Arianna as a main character truly added to that feeling. I didn’t really like her, she was naïve, immature and very frustrating and really reminded me of a seven-year-old child sometimes. The constant need to boost about what she can do and what she knows is something I associate with that young age, not a girl who’s sixteen. Also, the whiplash she gives me with the switch of emotions she goes through… there is a page around halfway through the story where she goes from frustrated to anger to crying to shame to self-pity in the span of one page…
The other characters were forgettable to me, they didn’t stand out. Keshieena as well, she was the bad guy in the story, but her actions were unbelievable, weird and unnecessary to me. She got angry at the slightest things and suddenly killed the slaves and characters who angered her. It makes for a weird villain, where it isn’t clear why she is like that or why she is the villain aside from her doing horrible things.
Because the Arianna felt more like a young child and Alessar felt forgettable their romance felt really uncomfortable for me to read. Maybe if the characters were a bit different or if the romance was a bit more fleshed out it would’ve come across differently.
Overall, it is a book that had a lot of potential for a beautiful world-building and plot, but the characters and the writing style missed their mark in making it that for me.
Thank you to the author for providing me with an eARC of this book via BookOfMatchesMedia in exchange for an honest review!
Fantacy is a story about Arianne, who finds herself transported from her mother’s attic to the world of Fantacy. Here she is believed to be the Fated One, who’ll find the heir to the throne.
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the ability to move forward despite that fear.”
The author had said that the book is a bit like Narnia and I couldn’t agree more. With Arianna being transported to another fantasy world, it immediately reminded me of that. I like books with those kinds of events and adventures so I had high hopes, which weren’t met unfortunately.
The book was very fast paced with a lot of events happening that I couldn’t always follow. It definitely gives you that sense of adventure, but it felt like a bit too much. I would’ve liked the events that did happen to have been slowed down and fleshed out a bit more.
While the world itself felt very beautiful, because of the rushed and fast pace, it almost felt like a lot of the world was descripted quickly and after a while it became a bit repetitive since all the characters did was travel. Certain plot points from the synopsis were hardly present as well, Arianna struggling with her identity
Spoiler
after the first few chapters nothing about that comes backSpoiler
only time that comes back after the beginning is when apologizing to Alessar about somethingSpoiler
after traveling for about 70% of the book, suddenly they start to do something about thatThe same could be said about the information, which was over explained and shared a lot. I think it would’ve been better if we’d been shown the things and information instead of the characters constantly explaining everything. A lot of POV switches happened, were for an alinea suddenly another characters POV was written and thus their emotions and thoughts were written instead of shown through the eyes of another character. A lot of emotions felt and situations were not shown but told, and it made this book feel very much like a children’s book to be honest. Classed as a YA book, with teens reading this, we are smart enough to made those kinds of connections and don’t have to be told everything as if we can’t figure it out ourselves.
On the topic of the book feeling very young, Arianna as a main character truly added to that feeling. I didn’t really like her, she was naïve, immature and very frustrating and really reminded me of a seven-year-old child sometimes. The constant need to boost about what she can do and what she knows is something I associate with that young age, not a girl who’s sixteen. Also, the whiplash she gives me with the switch of emotions she goes through… there is a page around halfway through the story where she goes from frustrated to anger to crying to shame to self-pity in the span of one page…
The other characters were forgettable to me, they didn’t stand out. Keshieena as well, she was the bad guy in the story, but her actions were unbelievable, weird and unnecessary to me. She got angry at the slightest things and suddenly killed the slaves and characters who angered her. It makes for a weird villain, where it isn’t clear why she is like that or why she is the villain aside from her doing horrible things.
Because the Arianna felt more like a young child and Alessar felt forgettable their romance felt really uncomfortable for me to read. Maybe if the characters were a bit different or if the romance was a bit more fleshed out it would’ve come across differently.
Overall, it is a book that had a lot of potential for a beautiful world-building and plot, but the characters and the writing style missed their mark in making it that for me.