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Spells, Strings and Forgotten Things
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|| Thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries for providing me this arc in exchange for an honest review ! ||
It sadly didn't do it for me. It was very slow and long, with lot of repetition and descriptions, and honestly I was getting tired to know what Calliope's socks looked like and all her process to chose them, or getting to know for the Nth time what Lucien smells like. We could get this book with a better paceing with less pages, and also the (lengthy) spicy scenes removed.
I would have loved more fantasy than romance, which happened to be the other way around. There weren't much happening magic-wide, their research was pretty slow and magicless. There were very few important moments outside of the everyday magic (like lighting candles), except towards the end with the final battle, and one trial. It's sad. Because I really loved the idea of sacrifying memories to do magic, and I also really liked the Grimoire. I enjoyed the plot twists about the aunts, it was a good call even if perhaps a bit too much (let's just say everything's possible with magic!)
I would also have loved a true double POV Calliope / Lucien, instead of having like 4-5 chapters with Lucien's POV, only when it was useful to the plot.
It sadly didn't do it for me. It was very slow and long, with lot of repetition and descriptions, and honestly I was getting tired to know what Calliope's socks looked like and all her process to chose them, or getting to know for the Nth time what Lucien smells like. We could get this book with a better paceing with less pages, and also the (lengthy) spicy scenes removed.
I would have loved more fantasy than romance, which happened to be the other way around. There weren't much happening magic-wide, their research was pretty slow and magicless. There were very few important moments outside of the everyday magic (like lighting candles), except towards the end with the final battle, and one trial. It's sad. Because I really loved the idea of sacrifying memories to do magic, and I also really liked the Grimoire. I enjoyed the plot twists about the aunts, it was a good call even if perhaps a bit too much (let's just say everything's possible with magic!)
I would also have loved a true double POV Calliope / Lucien, instead of having like 4-5 chapters with Lucien's POV, only when it was useful to the plot.
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