I love a good story dealing with the fae! I’ve read several lately, and I definitely enjoy the addition of fae hunters to this story!

After the unexpected death of her mother, Cat is confronted by a world she didn’t know existed - and is now a part of. Weird things happen and she finds herself trying to figure it all out while still remaining herself.

I’m finding it hard to talk about without spoilers really, but I will say I’m glad there’s more because this ended on a weird note that feels unfinished.

Thanks to NetGalley for the audio copy!

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Thank you to netgalley for this ALC.

DNF at 50%. Tropes weren’t for me and I didn’t connect with the characters. Hopefully the reviews are better for the next few books and I’ll try again for this one because I want to like it.

#RosePetalGraces by#OliviaWildenstein was narrated by #StephanieFritz. I love a moment to go back to fairytales and wonder about magic. This story brought me back to the magic of the car. It all starts bizarrely with an ancient grave being dug up but no body just filled with rose petals. Thanks to #Netgalley for gifting me the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I did not finish this book, while I usually love anything related to Native American culture and the concept of fae, this really wasn’t for me. A lot of things just didn’t make sense and I found the characters very unlikeable
.I won’t bother with a super long review considering I didn’t enjoy it much but I will say that I can see why others may like this book and the narrator was quite good !!

The whole feel of this story went in circles for me and I ended up Dnfing the book. I really really wanted to like it but I just didn’t.

This story fascinated me from page one.

Catoti left college to go to the small town she grew up in. Her mother had passed away.

The story then gets into Faroese and humans. The story gets more and more intriguing as it flows. In a few parts of the book I had to set it aside for a few minutes because it got so sad.

The story was so compelling that I listened the book in two settings.

I am so impressed with the orginality and deep origin/mytholgy in this book! Fantastic charecters and plot left me wanting more! I hope there will be more! Hihgly receommended read!

Although the characters have interesting backstories and I love the incorporation of Native American mythology, the plot was lacking. This is a very character-driven story where the intrigue of who the characters are and what they are doing is the driving point.

The main plot is solved halfway through, which was bitter-sweet in my opinion. I kept holding out for more twists and turns, but it was hard to feel engaged with them for they centered around the previous history of the characters that are barely known.

Was not a fan between Catori and her love interest. The small redeemable part about it would be that even she is not fully into it either at times; which feels a bit meta.

I will want to listen to the next book if it got turned into an audiobook for I am interested by the tribe and their history as well as what will happen with the faeries.

It was a really good audiobook!
I really liked the reader, she brought the book to life!
Also the story is very interesting! I am thinking about getting the next two audiobooks as well as I am kind of hooked now and want to know how the story goes on.
I will definitely recommend it!

This book was confusing for me. While I loved the mix of Native American folklore and fae folklore, it got a bit overwhelming for me. The main character Catori was so wishy-washy to me. The love triangle was a bit much for them not knowing anything about each other. The plot was meh.... a war between fae and hunters with the main character caught in between. Despite all this, Rose Petal Graves by Olivia Wildenstein kept me reading. I believe the Narrator of the Audiobook may have had something to do with that. I am not sure if I had been reading this book on my own if I would have even finished it. I will say I would read the rest of the series only to finish the storyline but I am not rushing out to download them.

Thank you Netgalley for the Advanced copy of this Audiobook in return for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

"Rose Petal Graves" had an interesting and promising premise. Keywords I'll use to describe this book would be: fae, fae hunters, ancient magic, instant attraction and romance. I had a hard time connecting with the characters in this story. Aside from maybe one or two supporting leads. Catori, the MC has made some very questionable choices throughout the book. While I understood the motivation behind her actions. It was still very frustrating to read/listen to. Overall, it was an average read for me. The ending was a good surprise. 2.5/5

The audiobook performance was good. I also like the book cover.

Thank you NetGalley and Olivia Wildenstein for providing this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I wish I could get into this book, I may try re-reading it at a later time, The premise started off good then the story dropped as it got too convoluted.

Rose Petal Graves is a YA fantasy novel.

Catori has to return to her hometown when her mum suddenly dies in strange circumstances. And things get even stranger when strangers arrive and Catori begins to discover her families history and who she really is.

Whilst this isn’t my usual genre I do pick it up occasionally and have read & enjoyed some of Olivia Wildensteins books before.

I thought the storyline and setting for the book was original. I enjoyed getting know Cat, her friends and her family more. The cover is beautiful too.

I did struggle to enjoy some parts of the book though, I didn’t like Cats “relationships” with some of the new comers, some of the things certain characters did don’t feel right and I found some of the dialogue between characters odd.

It is well narrated, the voice tells the story well and keeps your attention throughout.

Whilst I did finish the book, I probably won’t read any more of this triology.

I wasn't the type of girl who believed in fairytales, much less tales about faeries, but that changed the day the fae walked into my life.

Not sure what to say about this one. The writing is decent, the story is interesting albeit not overly original (imagine Twilight but Edward is Fae and hes in love with a Lady Jacob), but something is just... Not right about it.

I had a whole review ready to go about how the author needed to utilize beta readers so that her details were more believable, but then in the postword she thanked her beta reader.

The thing is, this book revolves around a fictional Indigenous American tribe, and the lead is one of the last remaining descendants of the tribe... But she feels white and everything about the book screams "a white woman wrote this".

Unfortunately, the language choices also scream "a woman who's never been to Michigan wrote this" because much of it comes across like it was written in a language other than English and then put through Google translate. A teenager who grew up in Michigan just wouldn't make the language choices this lead makes.

I didn't like that she was 19 and the love interests were all in their mid 20s (sorry, mid 120s...immortals you know). Given that she is supposedly a med student far enough along in her education to be looking for hospital internships, there is no reason for the lead to not also be in her 20s.

It's good that the author used a beta reader, but I think she could have used a few more. Like one who grew up in a small town in Michigan for those details, and one who is an Indigenous American for sensitivity to the cultures she appropriates for her storytelling.

As always Olivia Wildstein has captivated me with a story of tremendous growth and captivated me in the worlds between reality and the supernatural. I am thoroughly impressed by everything I have read of hers and will continue to read any book with her name on it. This story was not a cookie-cutter design but a beautiful story of tragedy and realization. The main character may have suffered strife and now has to face a world unlike what she knows but it is worth every moment.

I can’t wait for the next one! I really enjoyed this and right when it ended I wanted more! I feel like it just starting picking up towards the end which is typical with fantasy series like these and they always make you want to read the next one before it’s even written!

Very confusing start to the story and I really felt that description of the setting was lacking.
Characters could have been developed a little bit better- just all of the sudden there would be an unloading of information and then nothing else to learn about the character for a while. I know it is YA, but I just felt like the writing was lacking what a true fantasy book typically entails. Maybe it would be a good introductory book for younger kids learning about fae's? I felt that they were really trying to force up the insta-love storyline at the beginning of the book, killed off her bestie too soon, and people could be easily hypnotized?

I didn't hate the book, but I really didn't love it and probably will not seek out the sequel.

The narrator did great and was appropriate with her tone and inflection. The storyline however had me wanting a little more. You could feel the emotion that Kat was experiencing and the hurt that she suffered with the death and betrayal of each character and action, but I wanted a little more from it. What I felt was missing hasn't really stood out to me. The jump from feeling close to the fey to the hunters does seem appropriate for her characters age so I'll likely continue on through the series and see where it goes. The audiobook is an easy listen while on the train and performing house chores.

Rose Petal Graves tells the story of a young woman discovering her family's long-buried fantastical secrets after the tragic death of her mother. Set against the backdrop of small town Michigan, the story aims to be one part Twilight, one part The Mortal Instruments.

However, in my opinion, it lacks compelling elements that make it comparable to either. The book's opening feels like the long tail of the literary legacy of Twilight: one among many books like it, I'm sure. Written by someone outside of the culture, the narrative centers a northern U.S. native woman and features a hodgepodge of whitewashed Native American traditions shoved haphazardly into a story about mythical creatures from European esotericism, tinged with a love triangle arc.

In addition, I found the plot a slog. I’d expected less unrelenting tragedy and more adventure. Certainly traumatic events that surround the “I’m not like other girls” protagonist and their effects on her should be explored, but the fact that those events happen in the first place make the story’s tone at odds with its fantastical milieu. It’s not a fun, frothy fantasy read - which is fine for those looking for a good cry: but the disconnection I felt in regards to the characters meant that that never happened for me, either.

Between tragedies, the plot gets bogged down by either exposition that should have stayed in back story notes, or in daily minutiae such as entering a bathroom, washing one’s hands. It’s never a good sign when an audiobook makes one nod off. I can only assume that all this set up is required to set up a series, but it is one that did not start with a hooky bang.

Finally, I found that a lot of the descriptive language came across as pure cringe that needed another round of ruthless editing to kill the darlings. “A tear fell into my mouth, it was salty like his chips,” is one such example that springs to mind.