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Review: An Enchantment of Ravens

An Enchantment of Ravens An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I finished reading this book and now I totally understand what bothers the readers who have finished reading the same. It bothers me too.
My biggest complaint with this book is a major part of this book(actually the entire plot) revolves around the relationship of the main characters and that itself is something that is not very satisfying.

If you don't know what this story is about, it follows our main girl Isobel who is an artist and she makes portraits for the fair folks. One day the Autumn price Rook visits her and asks for a portrait. They fell in love but the Good Law forbids the love between a mortal and fair folk. And you can see where this is going.
The love between them was insta love. Even though the way they fell for each other, and the initial part of their meeting was very much elegant. But what happens later does pisses me off. We never encountered the part where their feelings for each other developed. Suddenly, we witnessed they are already in love.

Throughout more than half of the book, nothing got added to the actual plot. Later when the tension built on a little, it gets summoned so past.
We will see a majority of the plot is describing the atmosphere of the place, its surroundings which is indeed very whimsical and captivating. That's one of the things which I most like about this book, you can feel and imagine everything till the very end. Also how our M/C Isobel takes pride in her mortality as it describes who she's and what her identity is. She was even ready to leave Rook just because she can't afford to lose herself. No matter what. She's also very witty and knows her way out to deal with these fair folks.
There's not anything great about Rook, he's just a love interest who doesn't have much personality. Still, I ignored him thoroughly because I enjoyed Isobel's character.

I can only give this a 2 star.
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