by Kate Elliott
So i think its fair to say at the start of this book i wasnt a fan but being that i bought this book Kate Elliot has a few series going on i thought i'd stick it out and im pretty glad i did. while Spirit Gate will never be one of my favorites, at times i did enjoy myself quiet a bit, though that 'h...
Maybe 2½ stars. Fully ¾ of this book is taken up with mere introduction. We all know what's coming, but it just drags out for 300+ pages until suddenly everything happens.Then we get left at the end with very little resolution, and still no real understanding of what's going on. Well, Ms. Elliott, I...
This is the start of a series and as such has a lot of characters and several part of a new world and an unusual world at that. This worldbuilding is coherent and the variety of people and their reactions to events are quite interesting and felt solid to me. I dived into this book and regretted ea...
I just could not get into this. I've been trying for a week and I'm calling it quits for now. I might try again later to see if the book improves when I'm in a different mood.
Decent, but I wasn't blown away. The best part of the book was some strong characterization. Not every character got this, but most of them did. When the book was focused on this and not the bigger picture, I quite enjoyed it.Despite the good stuff, I had some major reservations with some aspects...
I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. Elliott has created numerous societies, each with their own distinct gender roles, politics, religion, food, etc. The societies and people are clearly all non-Western--they wear silk, eat yogurt, have brown hair and skin. There are POV characte...
This book gets 3 stars because the first 200 pages (in hardback) were a slog, but the remaining 250 were solid 4-star quality. I was a bit put off at first by the lack of tension, main characters happily carousing in taverns (snooze), and what seemed to be a very idealized fantasy world (not to ment...
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