Her blogging career started in 2010 with a YouTube channel named ClothesEncounters, and has grown to have 3.18 million subscribers as of late of 2022. The Ruin of Kings presents its magical world in a way I have never seen before, dancing somewhere between the old-school concepts of magic as the opposite science and the newer trend to treat magic as science by another name. Jenn Im is a prominent fashion and beauty vlogger, as well as a fashion designer, of Korean-American descent. But prospective readers of The Ruin of Kings should not be dissuaded by this flaw the novel is definitely worth the frustration and extra work its narrative structure creates. I found myself growing resentful at the start of each new chapter because of the way my focus was continually redirected. I feel that the back-and-forth structure is actually doing a disservice to Lyons’ own great storytelling. With an incredible talent in describing both scenery and action, Lyons’s writing trusts the reader to keep up, and reminds me of the joy I found in fantasy books as a child, when all plots and tropes were still brand new to me. The worldbuilding of The Ruin of Kings is an absolute delight, dropping the reader into a fully-fledged world in which every detail of every building, monster, and magical spell seems real enough to reach out and touch. I noticed this too like incorporating 'spicy' and 'insert name is quaking' into her vocabulary. Doesnt mean that she accepts Kate right away but Im just glad that she isnt the typical. Jenn has been trying so, so hard to copy and emulate Ashley/bestdressed lately, it’s HILARIOUS. That said, it’s impossible not to be impressed with the ambition of it all, the sheer, effervescent joy Lyons takes in the scope of her project. The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne Book Review. Parsing the genealogy of immortals quickly grows frustrating and tedious I often felt as if I were reading the middle book of a trilogy without having read the first. The Ruin of Kings muddles stakes and scale, often substituting the latter for the former. Books shelved as jenn-im-books-you-need-to-read: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow, Antkind by Charlie Kaufman, How to Change. The narrative infelicities that don’t stand up to scrutiny.are shored up by the scholar’s presence, and epigraph stating that he’s condensed and edited some things to make it a more enjoyable read for the mysterious royal personage to whom he has delivered it. I’m an absolute sucker for innovative structures, and really appreciated setup-in addition to maintaining that 'but how did they get here' tension, the story-swapping makes for short, snappy chapters that put me in mind of the adage about the best way to eat an elephant.
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