Fraternal twins - Iris and Malina - have grown up with their overbearing and magical mother, Jasmina. But the first main difference is that the plot moves along at a good pace in Ava Lavender, and here it plods. It's one of my favourite whimsical and charming reads. I was expecting something more along the lines of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender when I went into this book. These books just don't seem to be for me. Books that describe the scents of fruit and flowers in every scene, floating on a wave of purple prose. Books like Caraval and The Star-Touched Queen. Some books come with dreamy descriptions that focus in detail on the senses. It's not the first time I've talked about this. On the other hand, I feel like this book will be an all time favourite for a different type of reader. It just goes to show that having beautiful, poetic writing and an exciting setting in Montenegro cannot make up for a plot that takes forever to go anywhere. I've mostly been reading it during the day whilst on vacation so I'm neither tired nor grumpy, but I could feel my eyes trying to close as they moved through the pages of snoozeworthy text. I'm upping my rating to two stars, and yet this book was so painfully slow and boring. In some ways, I feel like I'm being generous.
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