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A review by danaleelin
The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant
4.0
First and foremost I want to thank NetGalley and Knopf Books for Young Readers for this ARC in exchange for my honest reviews and opinions!
3.5/5
Where to begin. When I heard about this book ages ago I was dying to get my hands on it. I was obsessed with Les Mis for years and Eponine held the keys to my heart. So a book centralized on her and a dark twist element sounded like they picked at my dreams.
There is so many aspects I love in this book rebellions, thieves and espionage all in a France if days past.
Eponine is a character you want to root for, and the Miracle Court is a place you want to go for thrilling adventures. And you get a taste of that in the book but not enough to keep you sated.
There are so many great characters from the original Les Mis tome to make me squeal with delight, but we never linger with them enough to get deep feelings for them. In fact we don’t linger with anyone except Eponine long enough to follow them. We get a flash of what could be a great character and we’re left wanting more. But!! There we many new characters that I fell in love with (and some who I didn’t like before and now I’m swooning for so A+++)
That’s due in large parts to a very confusing time jump aspect where the span of the book takes place over a few years, the exact number is unclear as is the ages the characters are supposed to be during that. This drove me absolutely BONKERS. You’d get to a high point and then it would be stated midway through the next chapter that the events happened two years ago already. so when you were rooting for a certain storyline to grow it was somehow a thing of the past.
A simple fix would be having a date near the chapter title. I know the book from which it’s derived takes place over a span of time, but being clear on the shift could have fixed a lot.
A lot was told and not shown on the page. Which also led to the “found family” aspect and the comp of Six of Crows falling flat for me. There wasn’t enough time for that family to be found in the confusion.
When it was great: the action, the quick dialogue, and drive of the characters, it was great. When it was bad: it was confusing and a struggle.
In total 3.5 stars for me
3.5/5
Where to begin. When I heard about this book ages ago I was dying to get my hands on it. I was obsessed with Les Mis for years and Eponine held the keys to my heart. So a book centralized on her and a dark twist element sounded like they picked at my dreams.
There is so many aspects I love in this book rebellions, thieves and espionage all in a France if days past.
Eponine is a character you want to root for, and the Miracle Court is a place you want to go for thrilling adventures. And you get a taste of that in the book but not enough to keep you sated.
There are so many great characters from the original Les Mis tome to make me squeal with delight, but we never linger with them enough to get deep feelings for them. In fact we don’t linger with anyone except Eponine long enough to follow them. We get a flash of what could be a great character and we’re left wanting more. But!! There we many new characters that I fell in love with (and some who I didn’t like before and now I’m swooning for so A+++)
That’s due in large parts to a very confusing time jump aspect where the span of the book takes place over a few years, the exact number is unclear as is the ages the characters are supposed to be during that. This drove me absolutely BONKERS. You’d get to a high point and then it would be stated midway through the next chapter that the events happened two years ago already. so when you were rooting for a certain storyline to grow it was somehow a thing of the past.
A simple fix would be having a date near the chapter title. I know the book from which it’s derived takes place over a span of time, but being clear on the shift could have fixed a lot.
A lot was told and not shown on the page. Which also led to the “found family” aspect and the comp of Six of Crows falling flat for me. There wasn’t enough time for that family to be found in the confusion.
When it was great: the action, the quick dialogue, and drive of the characters, it was great. When it was bad: it was confusing and a struggle.
In total 3.5 stars for me