Faebound

I really sadly did not enjoy this book. the hype for it is overblown and I wish there would have been more authentic reviews.

There is no character growth or development, they all come across 1 dimensional to the point that they are the exact same person at the end, as they were at the beginning. Lettle is written as an extremely immature and bratty side character who does nothing to push the plot along aside from give a riddle that she can't even work out. If she can't understand a 2 sentence prophecy who is a DAY ONE APPRENTICE, how is she ending as seer to the king and not just consort. She hasn't had one lesson yet instantly gets the job? 

Yeerans story line simply doesn't make any sense. why would she go home at the end of the book when there's been no reason or strong emotional tie to go back for? we are expected to believe she goes back for a love that we only got one or two pages for? 

I feel like we should have spent more time with Yeeran in the army before she was exiled. We didn't really get a chance to connect with that part of the story. Either that or it could have started on day 1 of her exile with thoughts back to what happened. Instead we get this middleground half baked setting with weird pacing. 

The first thing you get told with writing is to show not tell and this book was just a lot of telling. Pacing was jarring and caused a huge disconnect. This feels like a 2nd book, not a first. I loved the cultural aspects but they simply weren't deep enough. There is no emotion in the writing or with the characters.