An Enchantment of Ravens

Buckle your seatbelts loves, ‘cause this is gonna be a wild ride.When I first started writing this review, I had my rating at two stars. However my anger began to take hold and well... this happened.I am disappointed and betrayed.I expected so much from this novel. So much. The premise seemed so promising. A girl whose paintings can destroy a kingdom? A prince who sweeps her away as punishment (and who will surely sweep her off her feet!)? Couple that with forbidden love and we've got a match made in heaven.If only the novel actually followed that premise. To be frank, I found it boring. It was roughly an eight and a half hour audiobook and really didn't get exciting until the... oh... you know... last 45 minutes.To begin, the pacing in this novel is atrocious. Absolutely atrocious. As the premise suggests, Rook takes Isobel away to be punished, which is all fine and dandy until they're walking in the woods for not one hour, not two hours, but nearly three hours. Roughly a third of this book was spent so that they could walk in the woods! As if that isn't bad enough, they literally never get to Rook's court. No, the bulk of the rest of the novel is spent at the Spring Court as opposed to the Autumn Court.What??? Someone, please explain to me how this makes any sense when Rook is the Autumn prince.The passage of time is also rather, to put it mildly, cringey. At the beginning, I had no idea whether, days, weeks, or months had passed. None. And the rest of the book passed in what I can only assume to be, at most, one month. But I really can't be sure because, like I said, the passage of time was awful. Moving on, the characters could not even save this disaster of a book. Isobel was okay. She could be annoying and stupid at times, but really I didn't hate her. But Rook? My god, he was a sad rip-off of Rhysand from [b:A Court of Thorns and Roses 16096824 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) Sarah J. Maas https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1491595796s/16096824.jpg 21905102]. Don't believe me? Allow me to elaborate.Black hair? Check.Unusually beautiful violet-toned eyes? Check.Super powerful? Check.Deep-rooted anguish over a past lover? Check.Wings? Check.Immortal? Check.Sole sovereign of a country? Check.I can't.Some of the things that happen to these characters are unbelievable and never explained. Like Gadfly? What was that ending? I don't understand!!The author left so many things untied at the end. The biggest thing to me, of course, was the fact that Isobel was mortal and Rook was immortal. It was never established- or even brought up/questioned!- what would happen to Rook when she died. I am just soooo irritated.The only good thing I can say is that the writing was beautiful. The description was vivid and lovely. Maybe I'm just tired of reading the same Fae story. Maybe this is just a rough debut novel and Rogerson will write a much better book next time. All I know was that this was not the book for me.