Love Me, Love Me Not by Alyxandra Harvey

Pages: 211
Publish date: 22 February 2016
Publisher: Entangled: Crush
ASIN: B01B1NC13S
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Love Me, Love Me Not:

I received an e-arc of Love Me, Love Me Not by Alyxandra Harvey from Entangled Publishing: Crave in exchange for an honest review, this has in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings about the book.

As soon as I saw this book I knew that I had to read it for a few reasons. 1. I love the author. I adore Harvey’s Drake Chronicles, it was one of the first YA series that I read actually. 2. The plot sounded extremely interesting.

Love Me, Love Me Not follows protagonist Anastasia Vila and her family, who can well shapeshift into swans. I think that was the most intriguing part of the novel. I was unique and as soon as I heard that I knew that I need to read it.

The Vila family can only turn into swans once they have fallen in love for the first time. At the start of Love Me, Love Me Not Anastasia is yet to have transformed.  

And while the Vila family can turn into swans the Renard family can transform into foxes. And a blood feud between supernatural families is never a good thing, but one that has been going on for hundreds of years always ends with blood.

I really enjoyed Anastasia, she was quite interesting and felt like a protagonist that I could get along with. There were some moments where I wanted to wake her up to her feelings, to see what is around her, but overall, I did enjoy her.

Then there is Pierce, oh how I loved him. It was adorable and from the moment he was introduced, I was rooting for him. Pierce is Anastasia best friend and knew that she could transform into a swan, however he was brought far more into the world in Love Me, Love Me Not.  

That is what I like about Alyxandra Harvey, she writes really strong main characters that are really fun and different to read.  

Tough I loved the premise of the whole book, it did fall flat for me unfortunately. While the plot of the world worked really well, I wanted more. It is only 211 pages, the world building kind of wasn’t really there. Things were thrown out at us without really explaining it and it just confused me.

I also felt that there was far too many characters. I was just so confused, everyone had names and nicknames and there was this family and that family. When a character hadn’t been on for a few pages and then they would pop up, I would have to really think about who they were.

I liked the climax of Love Me, Love Me Not. Alyxandra Harvey again does this part really well. I had my thoughts about what was happening on, I guess some bits, but I didn’t guess why – and I loved that. It made it for a really interesting ending. However like the rest of the book, I felt that the ending was way too fast. It was like bam, bam, bam and I really didn’t get to breath and it was a little much.

Overall, I quite enjoyed Love Me, Love Me Not. The protagonists were really enjoyable to read and I did find interesting. The plot was intriguing and very unique, that he has me turning page after page, however I did feel that it lacked in the world building element and had me begging for me.