Never the Roses is a romantasy which is light on the overarching plot, and instead spends it’s time building up the relationship. The fantasy world is there, but as Oneira has shut herself away from it you only see glimpses and pieces of the world. This really worked for me. It felt like an easy-going read because of this and I think that really worked for this specific romantasy.
Romantic Fantasy
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Review: Garden of Rotten Roses (World Without Love #2) by Nicole Hidalgo
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Review: A Claiming of Souls by R A Sandpiper (Amefyre #3)
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Review: The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi
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I have a confession. This is my first ever Cassandra Clare book, despite being the perfect age when The Mortal Instruments came out they somehow never made it onto my radar. So this is a review from someone who is brand new to Cassandra Clare’s writing.