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A review by pypingpanda
Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
4.0
Okay firstly, This book is not at all what I expected.
I expected a fractured fairy tale and the very traditional save the world story arch. But, Wow just wow. Having read so many fractured fairy tales I find I can predict the story and the ending very easily when reading. but this book, this book does not follow the traditional save the world story arch at all. It begins with the tragic destruction of everything that they have know and her starting on a quest to protect the crown and bring it to the forest city, under the assumption that the Lady of the Wilds can fix the curse and save the kingdom she grew up in. But that isn't the case at all, which the author foreshadowed beautifully in the prologue (without you knowing).
Of course there is always one or two things I would liked to have seen play out differently, but overall if your hesitant about this story, just give it a try.
I expected a fractured fairy tale and the very traditional save the world story arch. But, Wow just wow. Having read so many fractured fairy tales I find I can predict the story and the ending very easily when reading. but this book, this book does not follow the traditional save the world story arch at all. It begins with the tragic destruction of everything that they have know and her starting on a quest to protect the crown and bring it to the forest city, under the assumption that the Lady of the Wilds can fix the curse and save the kingdom she grew up in. But that isn't the case at all, which the author foreshadowed beautifully in the prologue (without you knowing).
Of course there is always one or two things I would liked to have seen play out differently, but overall if your hesitant about this story, just give it a try.