Years later, now a powerful bloodbound pressed into the king’s service, Rachelle is ordered to protect the king’s illegitimate son-turned-saint Armand and accompany him to the fabulous Chateau de lune. Synopsis: Trained from an early age to be a charm-weaving woodwife, Rachelle is cast out of her village after she is marked by the demon-like forestborn and forced to kill her aunt in order to live. Slapping the words “based on the classic fairytale…” might make books like these fly off the shelves, but they can’t make the story within them worth reading. Perhaps its less of a storytelling failure than a failure of expectations. Crimson Bound soars in some parts, sags in others, and merely plods along for the rest. Hodge’s novel is difficult to review, as it’s neither a great book nor a terrible one, but it’s also not lackluster enough to be called mediocre. On the docket today is Rosamund Hodge’s fairytale fantasy Crimson Bound. Hello, everyone! Another day, another book review.
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