» overview «
stars: ★☆☆☆☆
plot: ★★☆☆☆
readability: ★☆☆☆☆
characters: ★☆☆☆☆
writing: ★☆☆☆☆
recommend: ✗

» liked «
- retellings
- magic in contemporary settings

» disliked «
- this is a book with present tense, 1st person POV. so a lot of the book is written as: "I" this, "I" that, "my" this, and "my" that. It just makes this book really irritating and hard to get through. Not only that, but it's honestly a sign of amateur writing. There are ways to make first person interesting and this just wasn't it.
- also, a lot of info-dumping. Bree is a newbie to the world of magic, so in order to teach her (and us) about the world, everything is just told to her/us straight up. additionally, the info-dumping wasn't even well done, nothing was explained properly or naturally. (evident in the fact that Bree is continuously shocked and confused at situations that have already been explained to her.)
- only one perspective
- the pacing of this book is so slow. this book was unnecessarily long because of the many, many, many irrelevant descriptions of what is happening in each and every scene. There is way too much unnecessary details and filler, this book could've and should've been 300-400 pages.
- this book features discussion surrounding the fact that the main character, Bree is a woman of color. Alongside the fantasy plot-lines, both aspects kind of water each other down.
- at every point of this book, i wanted to DNF. But i don't rate books I don't finished, so i forced myself to finish the audiobook just to give this book 1 star.

» overall «
yikes