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A review by kacktus
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
2.0
Told like a fairytale and mostly done well. The writing was pacy and compelling but the protagonist seemed less "good and patient and loving" as a classic fairytale heroine and more just "dumb as a brick", which made the message which I guess was meant to be "love and kindness conquering all" feel rather stumbled-into and unearned. Ans then at the end, everything became far too cloying and it started to feel less actually fairytale-like and more like a bad pastiche of fairytale instead.