When you hover over the stars on goodread, it informs you that one star is for "did not like it" and two is for "it was okay".I didn't like this book. But it wasn't the worst book I ever read. It didn't make me angry or upset. I just didn't enjoy it, so I feel awkward lumping it in the one star range where most of those books made me angry and annoyed. This book just made me bored. So it gets a two star rating from me because it wasn't bad enough to recieve a one star but that doesn't mean I enjoyed the book itself.Starting off, I was excited. Spies and witches and magic, oh my! But... meh. The focus was on the romance and even then the romance was nothing to write home about. I didn't care about the characters or the story line. There is little to no world building which is usually pretty damn important in a fantasy. Over all I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The first half of this book was interesting: the war aspect, the spies, the secrecy. BUT, as a whole, the plot felt like it was tacked on to make the romance seem plausible. The spy part was cool, and the characters were semi-fleshed out. After the main characters get past their first hurdles, it becomes boring. This could have been helped by letting us see more backstory on the war, and the royal houses. I read the first chapters quickly, but the rest lagged.
What do You think about The Laurentine Spy (2009)?
Spies with magic - sounds familiar. but I want to read it anyway.
—natisha11
It started off mediochre to promising, ended appaulingly badly.
—Jove
