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Cursed by L.R.W. Lee
2.0

A few things before I begin:

I would like to thank the author for providing me with this free arc in exchange for an honest review. I truly do admire all the hard work you put into writing this book.

I am extremely selective with the YA books. I choose to read as I’m not an avid, YA reader. This book very much so caters to juvenile YA (preteen). I took this arc on as it was explained to me that it was akin to good omens however, that is not the case. It was not a good comparison to make in my opinion.

I also absolutely hate having to write reviews like this.

So let me begin with what I really loved about this book:

-extremely original storyline
-We get angels, demons, dragons
-tough FMC
-academia setting
-Good versus evil
-Cliffhanger ending (kind of)

What I would have loved to see more of:

-more imagery provided via character descriptions
-more character development didn’t really get an arc from any of the characters throughout the entire story
-better pacing, the whole story was pretty flatline did not get the feeling of a climax
-more tension written between the FMC & MMC (they kind of just exchange a tiny bit of semi witty banter and then they love each other?)
-more imagery provided regarding the energy between the FMC and MMC
-at certain points it kind of seems like maybe Dante and the FMC could be having a thing developed, but it wasn’t really laid out very well
-more development with regard to the voices of each character E.G. FMC seems to have two personalities one where she speaks in one way and then the next when she’s trying to use “young people words“ but they’re not any young people words I’ve ever heard actual young people use so it seems a little bit forced
-A bit of a more explanation as to what happened after they took her wings cause it seems like her friend lost her wings and it was impossible to get them back but then she all of a sudden had wings again? Or maybe I misread that
-noting that this is an ARC There were many grammatical and spacing errors. However, there were a lot of incomplete sentences leaving incomplete ideas so as a reader, it left me having to fill in the blanks.
-overall would really have loved to seen more descriptive imagery laid out for the readers to visualize the world and the characters

All in all, this one was definitely not for me but again this could be enjoyable for juvenile YA readers who aren’t as developed or particular about the things I mentioned above.