House of Beating Wings

The concept of this book was interesting and I'll be honest. I love crows and that was a lot of the reason I picked this up. And to be fair, the parts of this book that had to do with crows were really great!

The rest of it was not.

Honestly, the entire plot felt like a whirlwind and a bit of a mess. The goal was clear but it felt more like were whipping from scene to scene without much transition. I didn't like many of the characters except for one or two side characters who didn't get much screen time. I didn't enjoy the casual sexism in the book that no one really tried to fight against. I didn't enjoy either of the love interests (thought I disliked one less than the other, but that's not saying much). Fallon was fine in the beginning but she got really annoying as the book went on.

Not to mention she spent the entirety of the book only going on the quest so she could marry the prince, who never gave her anything worth enough to endanger her life like she did. I'm glad she didn't end up with him in the end, but I didn't like Lore by the end either. Taking away her agency at the very end and basically kidnapping her? Super sexy, I'm sure.

I will definitely not be picking up the rest of the series. Even despite my problems with the characters and plot, it also started dragging on halfway through and I had to force myself to finish it.