Draw Down the Moon

Book Stats Stars: DNF@25%Start Date:03/22/24Ending Date: 03/22/24Genre: YA Fantasy RomanceForm: E-Arc/ALCPage Count: 336Publishing Date: 04/02/24Point of View: Dual 1st PersonSetting: Seattle, WA My Blog: https://tanyasreading.wordpress.com/?p=2461StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1e06e5e5-c3dd-48d8-9b24-515728c10606Thank you Netgalley and MacMillan Audio for the E-Arc and ALC in exchange for an honest review.I just lost interest in this one that while the plot is interesting, I felt like two main characters should have been a little younger like 14 or 16 instead of 18. The whole premise of going to a school of magic in the summer when you turn 18 when you become moonstruck with Elemental magic sounds cool for the most part. It’s just the fact the school felt so middle/ elementary school instead of feeling like a college campus that it should have felt like since they are 18 year olds about to go to college. One scene in particular felt like they were lining them up like they were elementary students instead of freshly graduated seniors about to be freshmen in college. I need to go back and finish this book but The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith did something almost similar with the MC finding out she has magic at the age of 17 and thus going to a boarding school of magic but it felt like High School/College and elementary school on how they treated the students. Another reason why I dnfed because I don’t really like the main character, Wren Nightingale. I am more interested in the secondary main character and potential love interest, Lee Young. The problem is the book dual first person but since Wren is new to this world since she just finding out she has magic while Lee already knew he had magic, we as readers going to be in her head more than in Lee’s head. I really don’t feel like being in a person's head that I partially don’t like so I'm going to head out. Also it felt so much like Harry Potter with how Wren and her family found out about the school (just think if Dumbledore come to Harry and the Durleys instead of Hargid) and it supposed to be a “Tournament of Skill” during the course of them staying at the school. The problem with this book is that if it came out in the early 2000’s around the time of Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games and the other early 2000’s YA Books, then it would fit right at home with those types of books. It has that early 2000’s YA feel to it since the P.C and Kristin Cast Books were very popular at that time. So if you want that younger YA feel for nostalgia, this would be the book for you.