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2023 reads // twitter thread

The Name Bearer

Queer Latinx YA fantasy

a girl destined to bring the newborn king’s name from the flowers of prophecy to them, is instead told she must wait 10 years to find the new true king, and is taken to train in hiding with a group of warrior women

found family, start of series

#The Name Bearer #The Name-Bearer #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is. i saw quite a few 3 stars reviews so i went in with certain expectations #i’ve seen some people say the writing is quite young which I guess I agree but it feels quite…fable like?#like I actually like the prose and the vibe!#also interesting choice to make it 3rd person when the MC keeps changing names - it keeps that very much in the front of your mind #u wouldn’t notice as much if it was 1st person #it def like. speedruns through things too. big time skips. covers one thing in a chapter then that's solved #and quite disjointed too #like you’re just getting fractions of the story retold 100 years later but not rly deeply connected to the characters in the moment #(not literally - it just FEELS that way bc of those things)#I feel like it could have been structured starting from when she leaves the danray place at 18 (?)#and then flip between present and her growing up there and making her friends and slowly revealing the situation from the very beginning.#bc like there are SUCH good characters and ideas and worldbuilding concepts! it just brushes over it all so lightly #also a thing that made me giggle: it's all like latinx worldbuilding and stuff and then introduces this guy as the royal wizard #my literal first note on this book: WIZARD?#it just feels anachronistic. like theres brujos and magia and then just. wizard? sorcerer at least doesnt feel as out of place but sjdgkjfhg #it's only pre-possible relationship in this book but also there was one line that implied the MC might be demi?

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