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A review by studiouspencil
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
adventurous
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I’ve always had such an obsession with fairy tales and growing up I had to come to the hard realization that a lot of them are laced with hate towards my people, woven through with antisemitic stereotypes.
The Wolf and the Woodsman is about the stories we tell collectively, and how those stories are weaponized towards the creation of worlds we want to see. It’s very much my type of story.
Every page is dripping with the sort of rage that comes from scraping and hiding and running to survive.
I even actually liked (!!) (huge for me I know) the enemies to lovers romance, which I usually dread (particularly when it’s in the configuration of oppressed girl x oppressor boy). I did think the lust developed a little quickly, but all in all their interactions were quite realistic to me.
The angry women in this one were 10/10 too. Tuula, Virag, Katalin, Szabin, I had a great time watching them all struggle with their beliefs and their g-ds and the defense of them
The Wolf and the Woodsman is about the stories we tell collectively, and how those stories are weaponized towards the creation of worlds we want to see. It’s very much my type of story.
Every page is dripping with the sort of rage that comes from scraping and hiding and running to survive.
I even actually liked (!!) (huge for me I know) the enemies to lovers romance, which I usually dread (particularly when it’s in the configuration of oppressed girl x oppressor boy). I did think the lust developed a little quickly, but all in all their interactions were quite realistic to me.
The angry women in this one were 10/10 too. Tuula, Virag, Katalin, Szabin, I had a great time watching them all struggle with their beliefs and their g-ds and the defense of them