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A review by booksalacarte
Crown of Earth and Sky by Emberly Ash
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Crown of earth and sky 2.75⭐️ 4🌶️
Fantasy romance
Dark themes
Dual narration
Arthur reimagining
Revenge
Fae Shifter romance
Secrets
Found family
Intricate magic system
Magic with cost
Mid/plus size FMC
Tw: suicidal thoughts, memories of rape and child abuse.
The writing gets very stilted when it goes from regular dialogue/scene into a spicy one. Almost the spicy scenes were written separately, then added in where the author thought things were getting slow. When it comes to this story, I almost think that there was enough plot going on that all of the spice wasn’t necessary and did the story a disservice.
Why in the world didn’t we get an explanation about the specific differences between the fae kingdom’s powers until chapter 52! That’s something that should have been laid out WAY earlier. Little things like that make me really annoyed.
There was repetitiveness, some near repeat of a paragraph earlier in the book, that brought me out of the reading and made me annoyed.
The characters are decently flushed out. The found family was very apparent and I enjoyed the different dynamics between characters, I only wish there had been more. I’m assuming with the last chapter we will see more as the series goes forward.
The plot and pacing was also good… there are many unanswered questions, leaving a decent trajectory for the next book.
Thank you NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for the eARC. All opinions are my own
Fantasy romance
Dark themes
Dual narration
Arthur reimagining
Revenge
Fae Shifter romance
Secrets
Found family
Intricate magic system
Magic with cost
Mid/plus size FMC
Tw: suicidal thoughts, memories of rape and child abuse.
The writing gets very stilted when it goes from regular dialogue/scene into a spicy one. Almost the spicy scenes were written separately, then added in where the author thought things were getting slow. When it comes to this story, I almost think that there was enough plot going on that all of the spice wasn’t necessary and did the story a disservice.
Why in the world didn’t we get an explanation about the specific differences between the fae kingdom’s powers until chapter 52! That’s something that should have been laid out WAY earlier. Little things like that make me really annoyed.
There was repetitiveness, some near repeat of a paragraph earlier in the book, that brought me out of the reading and made me annoyed.
The characters are decently flushed out. The found family was very apparent and I enjoyed the different dynamics between characters, I only wish there had been more. I’m assuming with the last chapter we will see more as the series goes forward.
The plot and pacing was also good… there are many unanswered questions, leaving a decent trajectory for the next book.
Thank you NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for the eARC. All opinions are my own
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail