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A review by _bookdrag0n
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
2.0
2.5 ish stars
I don’t know why I went into this with high hopes. This book was WAY longer than it should have been, especially since half the book, absolutely nothing is happening. It just didn’t draw me in or capture me in any way. I had to force myself through this one. I rolled my eyes A LOT
***review contains spoilers**
As usual, Gemma ignores every single warning she is given by people looking out for her. She continues to lie and evade her responsibilities to share the magic like she promised, but then acts like she doesn’t understand why the residents of the realms are upset with her and are on the edge of war? She already made the decision in the last book to form the alliance and share the magic, yet she spends this entire book backtracking on that and keeping the magic to only her little band of fake friends.
In true fashion of the other books, the “friends” lie to each other, backstab each other, use each other (cause let’s face it, if Gemma didn’t have the ability to get them to the realms and give them magic, Felicity, Ann, and Pippa would have all forgotten she existed and none of them would be friends). They still fat and “ugly” shamed Ann relentlessly throughout and she was only “beautiful” when she was changed by magic.
The Felicity/Pippa twist just seemed…. Weird? NOWHERE leading up to that bit did their relationship EVER seem like anything more than two best girl friends if there had been more stolen glances or touches it would have made more sense. They only acted the same way towards each other as they did with their friends they weren’t secretly in love with. It just seemed forced for a plot twist that wasn’t believable and authentic. At least not to me – a non-straight woman.
Kartik’s death made absolutely no sense to me and I’m still not entirely sure what happened? Like, he sacrificed himself for Gemma, I get that. But now he’s stuck as some tree in the Winterlands for the rest of eternity? Will he be corrupted in the Winterlands? Or is all the “evil” gone now? Because Eugenia didn’t start out evil? I don’t know.
Gemma in the end gives up everything to start a new life in America in New York, which, I don’t know, just seems like an ending that was slapped together and mediocre.
I don’t know why I went into this with high hopes. This book was WAY longer than it should have been, especially since half the book, absolutely nothing is happening. It just didn’t draw me in or capture me in any way. I had to force myself through this one. I rolled my eyes A LOT
***review contains spoilers**
As usual, Gemma ignores every single warning she is given by people looking out for her. She continues to lie and evade her responsibilities to share the magic like she promised, but then acts like she doesn’t understand why the residents of the realms are upset with her and are on the edge of war? She already made the decision in the last book to form the alliance and share the magic, yet she spends this entire book backtracking on that and keeping the magic to only her little band of fake friends.
In true fashion of the other books, the “friends” lie to each other, backstab each other, use each other (cause let’s face it, if Gemma didn’t have the ability to get them to the realms and give them magic, Felicity, Ann, and Pippa would have all forgotten she existed and none of them would be friends). They still fat and “ugly” shamed Ann relentlessly throughout and she was only “beautiful” when she was changed by magic.
The Felicity/Pippa twist just seemed…. Weird? NOWHERE leading up to that bit did their relationship EVER seem like anything more than two best girl friends if there had been more stolen glances or touches it would have made more sense. They only acted the same way towards each other as they did with their friends they weren’t secretly in love with. It just seemed forced for a plot twist that wasn’t believable and authentic. At least not to me – a non-straight woman.
Kartik’s death made absolutely no sense to me and I’m still not entirely sure what happened? Like, he sacrificed himself for Gemma, I get that. But now he’s stuck as some tree in the Winterlands for the rest of eternity? Will he be corrupted in the Winterlands? Or is all the “evil” gone now? Because Eugenia didn’t start out evil? I don’t know.
Gemma in the end gives up everything to start a new life in America in New York, which, I don’t know, just seems like an ending that was slapped together and mediocre.