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Into the Heartless Wood
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bookshelves: ya, retelling, from-publisher-author, fantasy, fairytale, arc, project-clear-ur-sh-t, 2-and-a-half-stars, eh, unpopular-opinion, reviewed
Nov 16, 2021
bookshelves: ya, retelling, from-publisher-author, fantasy, fairytale, arc, project-clear-ur-sh-t, 2-and-a-half-stars, eh, unpopular-opinion, reviewed
Well.
I can't even say I'm disappointed, because if you asked me aggressively two months ago what I expected to rate this book, I would have said "2.5, and also that's why I've had an advance copy of this for over a year and didn't even touch it until I was forced to by an equally aggressive readathon."
I am, at this moment, and also for most of the last couple of years, not interested in young adult fantasy.
You may want to say, "Emma, that's because you're officially in your mid-twenties, and you've probably outgrown it. It's not for you."
And while you would be right, you would fill me with so much rage and confusing sadness that I would probably cry, which would make me embarrassed, which would make me even angrier.
So let's avoid that.
This is fine. This is the kind of YA fantasy that I didn't love even when I was in my YA fantasy heyday, which is written in vaguely old-timey fancy language and centers around a romance between two teenagers who don't know each other well.
It didn't work for me, but if the genre works for you, this probably will! Who can say anything anymore.
Bottom line: A meh book that managed to bring about a quarter-life crisis.
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pre-review
how many times am i allowed to say i think i'm outgrowing YA fantasy before i have to accept that i've outgrown it?
review to come / 2.5 ish
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tbr review
sounds like i'll feel right at home.
(get it? because i'm heartless?)
clear ur shit prompt 12: fantasy
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
I can't even say I'm disappointed, because if you asked me aggressively two months ago what I expected to rate this book, I would have said "2.5, and also that's why I've had an advance copy of this for over a year and didn't even touch it until I was forced to by an equally aggressive readathon."
I am, at this moment, and also for most of the last couple of years, not interested in young adult fantasy.
You may want to say, "Emma, that's because you're officially in your mid-twenties, and you've probably outgrown it. It's not for you."
And while you would be right, you would fill me with so much rage and confusing sadness that I would probably cry, which would make me embarrassed, which would make me even angrier.
So let's avoid that.
This is fine. This is the kind of YA fantasy that I didn't love even when I was in my YA fantasy heyday, which is written in vaguely old-timey fancy language and centers around a romance between two teenagers who don't know each other well.
It didn't work for me, but if the genre works for you, this probably will! Who can say anything anymore.
Bottom line: A meh book that managed to bring about a quarter-life crisis.
---------------
pre-review
how many times am i allowed to say i think i'm outgrowing YA fantasy before i have to accept that i've outgrown it?
review to come / 2.5 ish
---------------
tbr review
sounds like i'll feel right at home.
(get it? because i'm heartless?)
clear ur shit prompt 12: fantasy
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
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Nov 30, 2021 08:32AM
I loove the title but I feel the book with be pretty bad...
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I relate a little too much to the “how many times am I allowed to say I think I’m outgrowing YA fantasy before I have to accept that I’ve outgrown it?”
It’s so funny because I’m almost 40 and I absolutely adored this book, and her Echo North book as well, but I can’t stand YA books 😂 but I think everyone’s idea of what YA books are, or what they don’t like about them are so different. I can’t stand the child like drama in most YA and find the romance annoying… but these type of YA books I gobble up. I love the old writing style. There is a sense of nostalgia when I read it, like The Bear and The Nightingale series. Makes me want to curl up by the fire with it like a blankie.
The flow of the writing is like at work to me.
