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** spoiler alert ** How should I start...
Writing a fantasy book has to be tricky and I understand that. The world itself wasn't the problem tho. The characters were.

Rose and Wren are 17. I am also 17. I should be able to understand their thought process and behaviour or just simply relate, right? Well I couldn't. They behaved so juvenile it made me cringe a lot. The only time when they behaved mature was when they were kissing their love interests. I personally think that the love interests were written better than the main characters, which may add to why I liked the kissing scenes...

The magic system is alright, I don't have much to say about that. Maybe just this one thing that bothered me: why didn't Wren bring more of the sand? Was she really expecting that one sack of it would be enough? Considering the fact that she sucked at behaving as a princess even tho she claimed to have trained for that most of her life and obviously not succeeding, shouldn't she have tried to use the spells to her advantage more than she did?

For example: Wren knows that princesses have to know how to dance. She trained with Thea, if I remember that right, and was not very good at it. The logical way for her to get better at it quickly would be either training more, which didn't seem to help her, or find a spell she could use to maybe learn faster? I don't know the rules of the magic tho. It could be impossible.

I'm not going to write all of my thoughts, as I'm too tired to do so. I will try to summarise them tho:

The story felt like going on a rollercoaster and waiting for the drop that you saw coming miles away, until you arrived at the end with the rollercoaster suddenly breaking under you. That's how the ending felt. Lots and lots of small plot twists that looked like real hindrances just to be solved quickly or twists that made almost no sense (or lacked passion).

I just think it's missing something. I can't put my finger on it tho. All I know is that I feel too old for this book even tho I'm the same age as the protagonists and I'm probably going to give it to my friend's younger sister.