This week we're finishing "The Songbird & The Heart of Stone" by Carissa Broadbent. Despite great world-building and compelling character backstories, this book was ultimately boring and predictable. Recycled tropes, a grating heroine, and a hero with everything going for him except personality.
Rating: 2
Spicy: 3.5 (not plentiful but very explicit)
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: more plot than romance
Tropes: almost enemies to lovers, slowburn
Heroine: Soft Girl
Hero: Shadow Daddy
https://www.notanotherheroine.com/the-spice-archive/the-songbird-%26-the-heart-of-stone
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210134467-the-songbird-the-heart-of-stone
Other books mentioned in the episode:
"Slaying the Vampire Conqueror" by Carissa Broadbent
https://www.notanotherheroine.com/the-spice-archive/slaying-the-vampire-conqueror
"Assistant to the Villain" by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
https://www.notanotherheroine.com/the-spice-archive/assistant-to-the-villain
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123257687-assistant-to-the-villain?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_4
"The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy" by Megan Bannen
https://www.notanotherheroine.com/the-spice-archive/the-undertaking-of-hart-and-mercy
"Deathless" by Catherynne M. Valente
https://www.notanotherheroine.com/the-spice-archive/deathless
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694389-deathless?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=KqF2jJkYXa&rank=1
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