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A review by rensreading
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
for a book on the shorter spectrum, it scratched just about every itch i had coming into this.
i was hooked from the first chapter. a witch unable to love and taking love as payment anyway? sign me up! i adored tamsin. she was unknowingly self-destructive and swallowed up by her grief and guilt for years. i can’t imagine losing my twin sister at only 12 years old and being expected to be okay with her death. i definitely understand where tamsin was coming from even if she didn’t quite think through her options before acting.
wren trying to be the perfect daughter for her dad and putting her entire life on hold to take care of him spoke to me in more ways than one. i also headcanon that she had ADHD just from how often she would be distracted by the littlest of things, which tamsin pointed out in the end. sometimes, wren kind of annoyed me? but it was more so because she was too naive even after seeing some of the awful things wracking their queendom on the journey to Within. im glad that she stuck by tamsin when the worst was revealed, but i do wish she had been just a bit more hesitant when it came to trusting tamsin even if it did give them their happy ending.
through twists and turns, this book stayed true to its synopsis and for that i’ve gotta give it 4 stars (:
i was hooked from the first chapter. a witch unable to love and taking love as payment anyway? sign me up! i adored tamsin. she was unknowingly self-destructive and swallowed up by her grief and guilt for years. i can’t imagine losing my twin sister at only 12 years old and being expected to be okay with her death. i definitely understand where tamsin was coming from even if she didn’t quite think through her options before acting.
wren trying to be the perfect daughter for her dad and putting her entire life on hold to take care of him spoke to me in more ways than one. i also headcanon that she had ADHD just from how often she would be distracted by the littlest of things, which tamsin pointed out in the end. sometimes, wren kind of annoyed me? but it was more so because she was too naive even after seeing some of the awful things wracking their queendom on the journey to Within. im glad that she stuck by tamsin when the worst was revealed, but i do wish she had been just a bit more hesitant when it came to trusting tamsin even if it did give them their happy ending.
through twists and turns, this book stayed true to its synopsis and for that i’ve gotta give it 4 stars (:
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death