The Graces by Laure Eve - Spoiler Free Review [CC]The Book Life

Everyone said The Graces were witches. And I was
going to make them mine. Hey guys it's Sarah Jane welcome back to my channel
today I'm here to bring you a spoiler free review of The Graces by Laure Eve. So
I was sent a copy of this book from the Willoughby Book club which is a gift
bookish subscription service and I have a link for that in the description bar
down below because you can get a little discount if you're interested.

Just like
everybody else in her small town River is obsessed with the Graces. She's pulled
in by their glamour their exclusivity their wealth their beauty and perhaps
even their magic. But unlike everybody else obsessed with the graces River
knows exactly what she's doing doesn't she?
So The Graces is a YA book and it's about this girl called River who moves
to a small town, starts a new school and she becomes obsessed with the Graces.
There are three Grace's siblings that go to the same school as her, there is
Summer who's in the same year as River. River is instantly drawn to Summer and
really wants to be her friend.

Summer is cool she has long dark hair she's a bit
of a rebel she's everything that River wants to be. And then there's the two
older grey siblings who are twins and you have Talia and Fenrin. Talia is a
lot more reserved than Summer she's one of those girls who are just effortlessly
beautiful and Fenrin, Fenrin is a gift from the gods. He's blonde he's witty
he's got that lazy smile that everybody loves.

And everybody just wants to be
friends with the Graces. They're known for their wealth their glamoUr their
exclusivity they have a lot of power over the small town there's a lot of
mystery that surrounds them and they're very wealthy and they're very private.
They tend to keep themselves to themselves there's a lot of rumors
floating around about whether they are actually witches or not and a lot of
strange things seems to happen around them so people are interested by them
and they either want to be in the club and very close to them or they just want
to stay away from them. Now River desperately wants to be friends for the
Graces but rather than suck up to them she actually acts like she doesn't care
she acts like she doesn't want to be friends with them and it works and soon
she's pulled into the fold. Plot wise I'm not going to talk about it much more
than that because I don't want to spoil anything I feel like it's a book you
need to go into knowing as little as possible.

For me this book was like a
recipe of the Craft, Charmed, Gossip Girl and Riverdale. You have that outsider voice narration like you do with Riverdale you have the
wealth and the exclusivity and the glamour and the beauty of Gossip Girl
and then you have the witchiness of the Craft and Charmed. I really like
that the graces had this atmosphere that they had this beauty this wealth this
glamour because I'm so used to hearing about witches is being the outcast
and witches is being the weird ones are the ones that nobody want to, like wants
to associate with and things like that and this book really turned that on its
head. The Graces have this allure that I.

Don't feel that you get with a lot of
other witch books and I really liked that. It did have a little bit of that
Twilight vibe which if someone had said that to me I would have been like hell
no but you know in Twilight when you see the Cullens come in and they just have
this atmosphere around them, that's a little bit how the Graces are. Everyone
knows there's something off about them but they can't quite put their finger on
why and the new girl is really pulled in by them. This is one of those books that
seems to have a lot of polarizing opinions now some people don't like the
book because they expected it to be a lot more witchy.

They expected a lot more
witchiness if you like a lot more magic a lot more spells that sort of thing and
this book isn't really like that it's about creating this atmosphere and as a
reader you're reading the book trying to work out if the Graces are witches. I felt
like this book was very atmospheric I. Really liked the writing style I was
pulled in I loved the characters I feel like if you understand why River is
obsessed with the graces then you buy into it. If you don't and you don't
understand why she's so obsessed with them I think this book could potentially
fall a little bit flat but I did buy into it she wanted to belong I
understood it and then as the book further progressed and developed it
became even more apparent why she was so desperate to be a part of the Graces.

Her
reasoning is much more layered than what you first think. Now River isn't actually
Rivers real name we don't find out what her real name is, early on in the book she
decides to take a new name for herself and call herself a River and she's a
character that on the surface you think is quite dull, she's quite needy she's
desperate to be friends with the Graces and you you feel like there's something
more there but you're not sure why. She's actually quite an unreliable narrator
you're not sure if you can trust her and I really love that aspect. It ended in a
way that made me so desperate to pick up the second
book The Curses which isn't out yet.

I'm just so desperate for the second book
because I just want to know what happens to my precious characters and I feel
like the second book is gonna be even better than the first. I believe the
second book is going to be told from a different perspective which if you've
read the Graces that's a really interesting development. I would
recommend this book if you like characters that are morally grey if you
like atmospheric books, I would recommend this book if you like the whole witchy
thing but you also like the intrigue and the glamour and the wealth of how the
other half live if you like. I love the way that this book combined those
elements and for me it was really strong I gave it four out of five stars because
it didn't quite hit that five star mark for me for a few reasons
and I do feel like I'm gonna love the second one even more so I feel good
giving this one 4 out of 5 stars because hopefully I'm gonna love the second one
and that will be even better than the first.

But that's it for my spoiler free
review of The Graces if you have read it let me know what you think down below
no spoilers please. But equally if you're thinking of picking it up let me know
that as well because that's always nice. I just love this book I can't wait for
the second one four out of five stars done.  Thank you so much for watching and
I'll see you guys all again soon, bye!.