by Carla Speed McNeil
What the heck am I reading??
Sadly, book club discussion did not really increase my appreciation of this novel (though it did suggest I might have gotten more out of it had I read the preceding volumes). The plot is too fragmented for my taste, the worldbuilding is shallow, and the protagonist goes from bland to outright unlika...
The amount of world-building Carla Speed McNeil has done around her stories is way beyond stunning. I don't know who else to compare her to besides Tolkien. Which isn't fair! Because I like her WAY BETTER than Tolkien. There's a really progressive, transgressive, feminist thing happening in McNeil's...
Um, wow, triggery like whoa for consent issues. Interesting commentary on class and race privilege. The story ... hmmm. I need to sort out where it went from where I expected it to go.I need to reread the earlier volumes.
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