Your Vileness by R. R. Orange

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 Amandine Klinghoffer is a young detective working on her first solo case in the kingdom of Glamwein. Prince Ivan is being haunted by ghosts. He's also hiding something from Amandine. He would rather distract her with romance than give her any useful information for solving the mysterious murder at the palace.

Your Vilness was nothing special. It's a cookie-cutter YA book that was enjoyable, but not great. It was also so full of poorly executed tropes. The story was so predictable too. The plot twists weren't exciting at all.

Though Your Vilness attempted the opposites attract trope, I couldn't care less for the romance in this book. Amandine and Ivan couldn't be more different. Once in a while, they had great banter. I liked them as friends, but my feelings for them as their attraction grew didn't change. Their connection felt forced and it might have helped a bit if there had been a few chapters from Ivan's point of view.

The characters in general weren't compelling. Most of them were unlikeable. They were either bland or really over the top. On top of that, Amandine and Ivan didn't have much character development.

I liked the Sherlock Holmes vibes this book gave mixed with revolution-era France. I think this book would be great for middle schoolers or people new to the YA genre.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an ARC of this book.

Page count: 339 pages

Published: November 18, 2021

Genre: fantasy

My rating: 3 stars

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