I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Thorn by Intisar Khanani Published by Purple Monkey Press on May 30th 2012
Genres: Adaptations, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Royalty, Young Adult
Pages: 243
Read it as: eARC
Source: Netgalley
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Synopsis
For Princess Alyrra, choice is a luxury she’s never had … until she’s betrayed. Princess Alyrra has never enjoyed the security or power of her rank. Between her family’s cruelty and the court’s contempt, she has spent her life in the shadows. Forced to marry a powerful foreign prince, Alyrra embarks on a journey to meet her betrothed with little hope for a better future. But powerful men have powerful enemies—and now, so does Alyrra. Betrayed during a magical attack, her identity is switched with another woman’s, giving Alyrra the first choice she’s ever had: to start a new life for herself or fight for a prince she’s never met. But Alyrra soon finds that Prince Kestrin is not at all what she expected. While walking away will cost Kestrin his life, returning to the court may cost Alyrra her own. As Alyrra is coming to realize, sometimes the hardest choice means learning to trust herself.
Al principio, me gusta como la ‘acción’, si podemos llamarla así, comienza de inmediato. No hay largos párrafos de introducción que haya que sortear para llegar a lo que de verdad nos concierne. No, la historia abre con el suceso que pone en movimiento todo. View Spoiler »
What I didn’t like, however, was how confusing things got as the story progressed. It wasn’t making any sense for a while. And there’s a fine line between leaving stuff out to give the reader room for imagination, and having him asking himself ‘wtf?’.
Y hay demasiados personajes. Más de los que son necesarios. No puedo recordar los nombres de las personas con las que Alyrra ‘Thorn’ se estaba quedando excepto por Violet y Laurel, porque sus roles tuvieron un impacto en la historia. View Spoiler »
Unfortunately, this novel was bland in more than one aspect, but above all the little things, the biggest flaw, in my opinion, was how everything seemed to be disconnected. I feel like a lot of the things that happened were mostly a filler for the real story, which took soo long to take place because we had a lot of description about how much Thorn enjoyed being a goose girl and his little goose boy companion who was always looking at her, like ALL THE TIME, and she’d never say anything about it. And there’s a talking horse, and then faeries and it’s just… all over the place.
I was tempted to DNF several times.
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