Mira... Lo he ido leyendo poco a poco con la esperanza de que mejorara y MUY AL FINAL parecía que sí pero luego... No. El worldbuilding son retazos que prácticamente no te dicen nada y eso que es una sociedad diferente de la real. Bueno, es que nada sale bien en este libro, de verdad. Un desastre.
Review originally published here.Why I Read It: This was the April selection for Calico Reaction's Theme Park book club. You may also have noticed that this isn't actually on my review cue (over on the left). That's because I actually just finished this last night. I bumped it up and decided to revi...
Whistle knows he's not like everyone else. His lungs give out after only a half hour underwater, and his tail is strangely divided. Finally, his mother gives up on him and casts him out onto the land, where a scholar takes him in and tries to civilize him.This could be an interesting tale (heh) of...
Benighted is a hard book to review: for starters, it's almost impossible to explain without spoilers. It includes lycanthropes (werewolves), but no magic and few action scenes, and delves deeper into moral and psychological issues than any urban fantasy I've ever read. It portrays a dystopia of sort...
I loved Whitfield's Benighted and was so excited to read her second book that I pre-ordered it from Amazon. Now I'm wishing I'd waited to get it from the library, or skipped it entirely. The premise of the book is this: in an alternate-history version of medieval Europe, kings must retain the suppor...
Whitfield is very good as psychologies that fit the worlds she's built, but the worlds themselves tend to fall apart at closer examination. Also, she tends to go limp at endings.
Whitfield is very good as psychologies that fit the worlds she's built, but the worlds themselves tend to fall apart at closer examination. Also, she tends to go limp at endings.
I loved it! Gritty and realistic - no glossy, slick, cartoony puff-fiction here (not violent/gore/sex explicit either though). I thought the author portrayed perfectly the total confusion of a mer-child suddenly dumped on land, down to his aversion to sharp angles and corners (which you won't find u...
I loved it! Gritty and realistic - no glossy, slick, cartoony puff-fiction here (not violent/gore/sex explicit either though). I thought the author portrayed perfectly the total confusion of a mer-child suddenly dumped on land, down to his aversion to sharp angles and corners (which you won't find u...
I've read 117 pages. The plot is is not uninteresting and the concept is very original, but I dislike the characters. As as reviewer here said, the relationships are devoid of positive emotions. And there is a lot of cold scheming, suspicion and loneliness in the mix that is not my idea of entertain...
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