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The Book of Love
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Lilibet Bombshell's review
bookshelves: 2024-ng-arcs, advanced-reader-copies, coming-of-age, fantasy, occult-fiction, supernatural-fantasy, urban-fantasy-fiction
Feb 10, 2024
bookshelves: 2024-ng-arcs, advanced-reader-copies, coming-of-age, fantasy, occult-fiction, supernatural-fantasy, urban-fantasy-fiction
Read 2 times. Last read February 10, 2024.
Real Rating: 3.5 / 5 Stars
This isn’t your standard fantasy. It’s more like if someone wrote fantasy in the style of literary fiction, which is something I normally eat up with a spoon and ask for second helpings of. It just didn’t happen with The Book of Love, though.
The Book of Love is lovingly crafted and intricately woven. The story is compelling enough to start and engaging enough to keep reading until somewhere in the third act where I found myself losing steam. I finished the book and I liked it but I can’t say it’s something I’d read again.
Kelly Link is a brilliant writer, but this book should’ve been shorter. I fell in love with the story, the characters, the world building, and the dialogue, but nothing can save a book from a plodding pace.
I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: Coming of Age/Fantasy/Occult Fiction/Supernatural Fantasy/Urban Fantasy
This isn’t your standard fantasy. It’s more like if someone wrote fantasy in the style of literary fiction, which is something I normally eat up with a spoon and ask for second helpings of. It just didn’t happen with The Book of Love, though.
The Book of Love is lovingly crafted and intricately woven. The story is compelling enough to start and engaging enough to keep reading until somewhere in the third act where I found myself losing steam. I finished the book and I liked it but I can’t say it’s something I’d read again.
Kelly Link is a brilliant writer, but this book should’ve been shorter. I fell in love with the story, the characters, the world building, and the dialogue, but nothing can save a book from a plodding pace.
I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: Coming of Age/Fantasy/Occult Fiction/Supernatural Fantasy/Urban Fantasy
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
October 4, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 4, 2023
– Shelved
February 10, 2024
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Started Reading
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
2024-ng-arcs
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
to-read
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
advanced-reader-copies
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
coming-of-age
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
fantasy
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
occult-fiction
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
supernatural-fantasy
February 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
urban-fantasy-fiction
February 10, 2024
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Finished Reading