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A review by dododenise
The King's Men by Nora Sakavic
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I love this book and this world more than I should.
One thing I can’t let go of is the way mental health and mental illness is dealt with. Doing some googling and looking at fandom statements, apparently Nora didn’t do research in mental illness and just made shit up??? It makes a lot of sense now since I just couldn’t figure out how the pieces were supposed to fit together.
Ngl I’m deeply troubled by that. So we’re just sitting here pretending Andrew is psychotic even though that makes zero sense. Thinking that psychosis makes you dangerous?? Those are some dangerous stereotypes.
Other characters and aspects of the story regarding other characters’ mental health also make little sense. If we were to pretend the foxes are very resilient people, at least half of them should still have severe PTSD. Yet I just see chaotic bits here and there that don’t really fit together. Perhaps you can use headcanons to make it work somehow but what the book is giving us is frustrating.
I also just wanted to state that the ravens living on 17 hour days is so ridiculous. Every single one of them should be falling apart like Neil did after those 2 weeks. The human body is not made for that and can’t get used to that. Even if they were in the nest 24/7, which they aren’t, it wouldn’t work.
One thing I can’t let go of is the way mental health and mental illness is dealt with. Doing some googling and looking at fandom statements, apparently Nora didn’t do research in mental illness and just made shit up??? It makes a lot of sense now since I just couldn’t figure out how the pieces were supposed to fit together.
Ngl I’m deeply troubled by that. So we’re just sitting here pretending Andrew is psychotic even though that makes zero sense. Thinking that psychosis makes you dangerous?? Those are some dangerous stereotypes.
Other characters and aspects of the story regarding other characters’ mental health also make little sense. If we were to pretend the foxes are very resilient people, at least half of them should still have severe PTSD. Yet I just see chaotic bits here and there that don’t really fit together. Perhaps you can use headcanons to make it work somehow but what the book is giving us is frustrating.
I also just wanted to state that the ravens living on 17 hour days is so ridiculous. Every single one of them should be falling apart like Neil did after those 2 weeks. The human body is not made for that and can’t get used to that. Even if they were in the nest 24/7, which they aren’t, it wouldn’t work.