Kitty2000's Reviews

This review contains spoilers. It was great overall, but I felt weird about how it portrayed Sirius and the king’s relationship. It felt like really messed up and I don’t feel the book did well enough at treating certain subject material such as coercive sexual acts with the complexity they deserved? They often felt fetishized which kind of ruined the emersion of the story for me. Although I thought it was interesting when Sirius was crying because he killed the king because I felt like it could have been hinting at the complexity of sexual abuse, I don’t think that was the author’s intent. I think the author fetishized the king and sirius’s relationship and wanted to portray that maybe deep down Sirius had liked him. Which kind of gave the vibe of “is it really grape if you liked it?” Like it felt like the author was trying to imply there was something there other than an exploitative relationship. Which kind of gave me the ick. But idk.

Overall it was good but again just felt like certain things could have been portrayed better. But it is sm*t so maybe Im asking for too much. But the story was just so much more complex than the average sm*t which is why I think it subconsciously made me expect more out of it. Overall really liked Sirius as a character though and the story.