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Kingdom of Ashes (Nightfall, #1)
by Elena May (Goodreads Author), Nadica Boskovska (Illustrator)

Release date: Oct 30, 2016

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Khanh (the meanie)'s review of The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1) by Laurie Forest

“Elloren,” Aunt Vyvian breathes, “you have grown into the absolute image of your grandmother.”

It’s a huge compliment, and I want to believe it. My grandmother was not only one of my people’s most powerful Mages, she was also considered to be very be

“Elloren,” Aunt Vyvian breathes, “you have grown into the absolute image of your grandmother.”

It’s a huge compliment, and I want to believe it. My grandmother was not only one of my people’s most powerful Mages, she was also considered to be very beautiful.

This book has an overwhelmingly, unprecedentedly low rating. I suspect it's because of the controversies this book has generated. This is unfortunate, because I believe this book's low rating should be due to the fact that it is painfully bad, not to mention mind-numbingly dull, rather than anything racially offensive within the book.

I've been reading this book for a week, and I can't read more than a few chapters at a time because it is just so bad. There is no complexity in this book; any conflicts within it is so simple and idiotically presented that it might as well have been written for a first grader's comprehension.

There they are. My tormentors. Sitting there, eating spice cake.

“The denizens of hell do not get to eat cake!” I snarl, heart racing.

I don't give a fuck about the racism. We're talking about elves and werewolf type shit here, and I'm too tired to care about any metaphorical offense.

What DOES offend me is:

1. The constant girl-on-girl hatred
2. The fact that the only nice girls are the outcast, ugly ones

Tierney Calix is, by far, the ugliest Gardnerian girl I’ve ever laid eyes on. Reed-thin, her face is sharp, her nose unevenly hooked, her straight hair oily and uncombed.

3. The fact that all the girls are mean and the meanest most beautiful girl wants the guy who's in lurve with Elloren

“Fallon is obsessed with Lukas Grey.”
Ah, him again.
“So...they’re courting?”
“No,” she puts in flatly. “Not to my knowledge. From what I’ve seen, Lukas has little interest in the girl.” My aunt’s face twists into a disgusted sneer. “Even though Fallon throws herself at him quite wantonly.”

4. The fact that the main character is so beautiful and looks JUST like her famous grandma who is the most famousest witch ever!
5. The fact that the most desired boy in the book wants to become betrothed to her after their first meeting
6. The fact that the writing is terrible and laughable
7. The fact that the conflicts between the mythical races in the book are simplistically presented
8. The fact that the beautiful brave main character spends half the fucking book bawling her eyes out
9. The fact that there is a love triangle
10. The fact that this book is fucking long and a waste of my time. ...more "
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