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Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

Devney Perry

Start date: June 1, 2025

Finish date: June 30, 2025

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May 18, 2025 Mariya rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, stupid-heroine, princess-or-queen, enemies-to-lovers, romantasy

DNF @ 58%

Okay! I cannot for the life of me understand the multiple 5-star reviews! The average 4.5 star GR rating! The best romantasy of the year? The constant talk on booktok & bookstagram?! No! This was NOT good! Now I will admit when I first started this book I was enjoying it, but it went nowhere! Nothing happened! I was incredibly bored! There are too many things about this book I dislike than like.

My issues! I could not stand the FMC! I have this thing where I have to like the main ch DNF @ 58%

Okay! I cannot for the life of me understand the multiple 5-star reviews! The average 4.5 star GR rating! The best romantasy of the year? The constant talk on booktok & bookstagram?! No! This was NOT good! Now I will admit when I first started this book I was enjoying it, but it went nowhere! Nothing happened! I was incredibly bored! There are too many things about this book I dislike than like.

My issues! I could not stand the FMC! I have this thing where I have to like the main character otherwise what鈥檚 the point? Now, I understand Odessa was this princess who has been sheltered pretty much her whole life and is a bit naive to the outside world, but good god! Did she have to be so annoying?!

The questions? Now, I don鈥檛 mind the questions Odessa asks because it is stuff as a reader I would want to know. Well, most things anyways. But it鈥檚 the fact that even after halfway through the book, we still don鈥檛 get any answers! I don鈥檛 mind waiting for those answers, but at least let me enjoy the journey until we get those answers!

I mean, all we have is traveling, monster attacks & training! Rinse and repeat! That is pretty much all the book has been up to the point I have read. Absolutely nothing has happened! And I am so fucking bored! I鈥檓 sorry, but I鈥檝e been through a little over half of the book and you still haven鈥檛 given me anything?! Yeah, I鈥檓 done! I know others have said it gets better at 70-80% of the book, but if it takes that long to draw you in it ain鈥檛 worth it!

The romance! The enemies to lovers? I think Odessa鈥檚 character just ruins this for me! It gives off more a childish & juvenile vibe that I can鈥檛 even take it seriously! The amount of times she says she hates and fantasies about killing the MMC is so repetitive that I just can鈥檛! I fucking get it! You hate him! The MMC can come off as an asshole sometimes, because of some of the things he says, but I didn鈥檛 hate him. And as I was reading I didn鈥檛 really get that big connection or chemistry with them to really care about them! Again, it could also be because I just don鈥檛 like or care for the FMC too! ...more

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