Thursday, August 21, 2025

The Crimson Crown review


 

Book: The Crimson Crown

Author: Heather Walter

Pages: 533

Date(s) Read: July 7th, 2025 to August, 10th 2025

Date Published: August 27th, 2024

Rating: 5/5

Genre: 5-star-books, 6-star-books, books-read-2025, fantasy, gothic, read, sapphic

Characters: 5/5

Writing style: 5/5

Story: 5/5

Ending:  5/5

Cover: 3/5

Format: Hard Cover

Date Bought: June 2025

Book Cost: $10.00


Review:

The Crimson Crown is a dark gothic romantasy fantasy retelling that will grip you from the first page. Filled with sapphic love and longing, girl power, and all things dark and creepy this novel swept me off my feet.

 

In this novel, Ayleth is a witch reeling from the loss of her sister and the long-ago betrayal of her lover. In her mothers eyes, she's just a lackluster replacement for her more powerful dead sister. The other witches treat Ayleth as if she has no value. In an effort to bring her more powerful sister back from the dead, she travels to a dark castle filled with a cast of unique and interesting characters. It's a tale of love, loss, and revenge.

 

There wasn't a moment of this novel that I felt was slow, over wrought, or poorly written. I absolutely ate this novel up and you will too if you like sapphic romance, dark fantasy, and fairytale retellings.

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