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I swear publishers just give writers a checklist now for fantasy novels and if they mark off every box it'll go mass-produced viral without fail. I'm so over it.

This book was SO disappointing. I've seen it everywhere since release and well before with RAVINGGGG reviews so I was so excited to finally jump into it. Now I wish I had just stayed within my excitement and never bothered.

Faebound reads as if siri read an entire book to you. The writing is SO robotic I found myself zoning out continually. The characters have 0 depth, I had to keep going back to the start of chapters to remind myself who I was even reading about.

This book is 100% tell, don't show. And to spoil your OWN book by a ✨️prophecy✨️ that is told within the first 3rd of the book is MIND BOGGLING to me. I don't think I've ever read a book that was so predictable bc the author literally just tells you the plot (if you can even call it that). Had it been told shady, and thick with mystery and wonder it would've been SO much better. But alas, we couldn't be so lucky.

The romance was written so clunky and forced. Enemies to lovers WHERE ?? "I hate her but man she's hot" is so lame and lazy. Like you're prisoner to these magical and supposed fairytale fae and you just....don't care? You're busy watching your trainer/enemies lips and body? And then every single time it's "and I then thought of my ex". Y A W N. I firmly believe she should've nixed the romance plotlines entirely and actually written a halfway decent adult fantasy like it's advertised as.

I really implore these fantasy authors to PLEASE flesh out your lore. Enrich and deepen your relationships. SHOW US the story instead of using a "i have a question"//she asked a question scapegoat. And please, please stop with these robotic, clunky af half-assed books bc I'm becoming SUCH a salty reader over it 😭😭