ruekeyronay's reviews
314 reviews

The writing is beautiful but I had a big issue with the development of the characters and the romance. It made no sense. The pay off wasn't satisfying because there wasn't any proper development. Raphael and Liddie fell in love but they never even had one proper conversation.

reminded me of things we lost in the fire

17 year old me could not appreciate this masterpiece. Jane Austen slay

entertaining as hell

I finally finished a book after months of a terrible reading slump. Admittedly this wasn't a great book to mark the end of my reading dry spell. This book was just, okay. I just finished it and I'm already forgetting about it. I mean, you can tell that there's the beginning of what comes to life in her magnum opus Jane Eyre, but overall it lacks the stand out characterization, gothic aspects and riveting storytelling that makes Jane Eyre so wonderful.

That's not to say that I read this book while comparing it to Jane Eyre, but if this was the only book I had read from her, I would not want to read any more. It's still enjoyable but you can't just turn your brain off and enjoy the writing because the writing in this is just not the most enjoyable.

this was genuinely so good, I enjoyed it so much.

This book was so disappointing. 300 pages of telling and not showing. We're told every two pages how much the sisters are obsessed with Grey. No build up to any of the 'character development' that took place, and definitely no build up to the romance. I liked the creepy aesthetics, but that's about it. Also, if Iris had a personality, I couldn't see it.

I think this is a major reason why I don't like YA anymore, why are you trying this hard to be unnecessarily dramatic?