A good idea with a nice setting but extremely slow and often the writing was poor. Characters mildly annoying in a 2D-way and far too many of them. The only interesting part were the Skraylings, but they did not turn up quick enough.
The Alchemist of Souls is the first book in the Night's Masque trilogy and was a total guts buy for me. Both this book and the second in the trilogy, The Merchant of Dreams, were part of the a Kindle daily deal, each for $1.99. I had never heard of them, nor had I heard any buzz about them and the...
It is ok. That is all I have to say. 2.5 is the highest I would give, but Mal was boring. The prose dragged. The book tried to be everything. But it was a bit higgledy piggeldy.
An impeccably-researched alt-history set late in Queen Elizabeth I's reign.In this world there are two main points of difference. Elizabeth married and bore two sons, and there is a race of people called "skraylings" who come from Vinland (Newfoundland). Presumably this is a play on 'skraeling', wh...
I actually picked this book up because I saw the second book, which looked really good to me. (I almost bought it, too, until someone pointed out to me that it was the second book in the series.) So, I read this one first even though the description didn't grab me as immediately.That last sentence p...
Review: in this alternative history where the Virgin Queen has children, Maliverny Catlyn, aka Mal, is a swordsman. Who, one day, is charged with protecting the ambassador of the Skraylings, some non-human creatures from Viking lore. Being desparate for money to pay for the treatment of his brother...
This is another review that I've put off writing because I'm still feeling rather ranty about it.My problems with this book don't really lie with the story, but with the vocabulary.I have issues with the word whilst. It's fine in dialogue as long as it's used sparingly, but I can't stand when it's ...
Horrible POV changes. Flat and lifeless characters. Zero plot to speak of. Ugh. I just can't keep reading this. There is NOTHING positive I can say about this novel and at nearly the halfway point, that's just not acceptable.
If you enjoy paranormal historical fiction the likes of Sword & Blood by Sarah Marques or Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson, this book is definitely for you.The Alchemist of Souls was delightful. Full of gorgeous historical details and true to the spirit of Elizabethan era, but at the same time curiously m...
The cover got me. It really did. And two stars is a perhaps a slightly unfair rating. The idea is good. I like the world; it's an interesting what if. The problem is that the relationships between the characters is so, so flat. There is suppose to be a romance, and I just don't buy that the tw...
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