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A review by jwilson4444
The Crowns of Croswald by D.E. Night
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
2.5
This middle grade fantasy follows Ivy Lovely on a Harry Potter type journey as she goes from maidenly rags to adventurous, powerful magic student in a castle where she is called to study.
I didn’t love this, but to be 100% fair, I didn’t think I was going to. I didn’t care for Harry Potter because a child learning magic and for several hundred pages and then miraculously defeating evil with no skill at the very end is simply not entertaining for me. This story in particular was difficult for me to get through because I could not keep track of all of the fantastical names that were given to both commonplace and magical objects.
I don’t think this would be the worst story for a middle schooler who really enjoyed Harry Potter and wanted something similar, especially for a girl who wanted to better connect to the main character, but I was just not the correct audience.
Thank you to Stories Untold, D.E. Night, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this novel!
I didn’t love this, but to be 100% fair, I didn’t think I was going to. I didn’t care for Harry Potter because a child learning magic and for several hundred pages and then miraculously defeating evil with no skill at the very end is simply not entertaining for me. This story in particular was difficult for me to get through because I could not keep track of all of the fantastical names that were given to both commonplace and magical objects.
I don’t think this would be the worst story for a middle schooler who really enjoyed Harry Potter and wanted something similar, especially for a girl who wanted to better connect to the main character, but I was just not the correct audience.
Thank you to Stories Untold, D.E. Night, and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this novel!