Real Rating: 3.5* of five

<b>PEARL RULE @70%</b>

Mundanus? Exilium? Really. That's some on-the-nose stuff. Still, not for nothing did I get to 72%. The writing clearly didn't offend me...the plot was a little eye-rolly, with Cathy being very much a modern, sweary woman in pseudo-eighteenth-century times...snappish, ready to lash out at everyone including her future husband whom she very much does not want to marry despite falling in love with him...who just for added eye-rollyness makes an effort to <i>understand</i> her which she repays with unkindness and every attempt to drive him away.

The last straw for me was a major infodump about how the world we're in works to a mundane. Honestly, I shit you not. At SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT into the book. Had it happened at twenty-two or even forty-two percent I'd be a lot less annoyed.

Still and all, this sort of urban fantasy has squads and fleets of admirers. At $7.99 on Kindle you fans will really jam on this tale.

Memorable characters in this story of Fae England. Good for fans of either fantasy or regency fiction.

I was really excited to read Between Two Thorns but after I finished it I was... lost? If that's the right world. For a book involving the fae and politics, I would have expected something to stand out but frankly this one dropped off my radar WHILE I was reading it. There are multiple points of view that I didn't care about (and also didn't understand why some of them were needed?). And I think I was just expecting more to happen based on the synopsis but it was all drawn out and left me bored. Unfortunate, and I regret not DNFing it and moving on.

It was an interesting read, however it kept falling down the list as other books were a bit more intriguing.