Have you ever read Becky Chambers and were thinking to yourself I wish this was sexier?
Let me introduce you to Rescues and the Rhyssa!
This book has:
1.Have you ever read Becky Chambers and were thinking to yourself I wish this was sexier?
Let me introduce you to Rescues and the Rhyssa!
This book has:
1. Cozy found family vibes but also some pretty cool action.
2. Interesting genderbuilding of different alien species.
3. Sapphic romance that's not exactly enemies to lovers but more like... "we disagree on some really important life values but we can't stop fucking each other" to ... "we are starting to see where the other person is coming from and we can actually stop fucking each other but we don't really want to"? Huh... that's a mouthful... let me just say that the romance dynamics are really great!
4. This also kind of inches into erotica with the way the romance is written, but I feel like it just takes the best from the both worlds.
This is such undiscovered gem! Thank you @Alia for recommending it to me! I wish more people would read this because this was so good. I will definitely be reading more from T.S. Porter!...more
Mom got me this book several years ago for Christmas, the thing was... she wanted to read it! So she basically bought it so she could do that and thenMom got me this book several years ago for Christmas, the thing was... she wanted to read it! So she basically bought it so she could do that and then gave it to me as a present... great parenting. I'm kidding we have a great relationship, but my point here is this isn't a book I would have chosen to read on my own. Which is the reason why I didn't read it when she got it for me and she did and it was among her books and the book got lost. A few months back it resurfaced and I decided to read it, because... it was a gift and I am thinking about properly reading Moomins for quite a while, so...
The verdict is that this book isn't quite for me, but isn't bad. It took me a while to get into it, then there were several stories that I really enjoyed and they made me think about childhood and The Six Bullerby Children and just made me want to read Astrid Lindgren in general. But always when I thought there was something that I thought was delightful - little Tove being kind of gay for their servant Anna (view spoiler)[there is nothing really gay, there is just a lot of description of forearms and... you know, just the attention to woman body in this fashion feels super queer to me, but... people will disagree (hide spoiler)] and how child-like she really reads and the way class seems to be featured in that moment - the moment ende up turning into something... questionable? (I think there was the implication that (view spoiler)[Anna stole the family gold? Or were they just so stupid that they left it in the brook for someone else to take? (hide spoiler)].
There was a moment when I was thinking that I would have enjoyed this better if I read it as a kid, but... there are some bits that are kind of harsh? CW for (view spoiler)[animal death, specifically (view spoiler)[bird death (hide spoiler)](hide spoiler)] I know that kids are resilient and often don't mind these things when they aren't not the centre of the story, but... I was a little uncomfortable with the idea of recommending the book to a child, so... a bit unsure who is the intended audience for this.
Overall, a bag of mixed feelings, but I'm glad that I finally read this. I can now finally return this book to it's rightful owner, my mom, who loved it. I'm definitely even more determined to read The Moomins now. I'm not entirely sure if I read some before... but I do think that my mom might have read them to me when I was little? We definitely watched the show... Ugh, really want to do this, but we don't have the first book at home and I do like to do these things in the order!...more
"How dare you," she said, in stifled accents. "You buy me like a cut of meat or... of... a carrot..." "Why, Miss Tarleton," he drawled, "you sell yo
"How dare you," she said, in stifled accents. "You buy me like a cut of meat or... of... a carrot..." "Why, Miss Tarleton," he drawled, "you sell yourself too cheap with such similes." Now she was too irritated even to head toss. "Then, like a rare and exquisite Sevres Snuffbox."
It turns out that the reason why I don't read Alexis Hall's books more often is simply because when I do, I can't stop and then I don't sleep and then I am sleepy all day. Yes, this happened when I was reading Lady for a Duke and now it happened again with Something Fabulous. And really this book couldn't be much more different from Lady for a Duke! This is a completely insane campy romp with both crazy and delightful characters and honesty how am I even supposed to talk about this?!
I guess when in doubt, talk about characters...
"Oh, flower, you are plenty winsome. But you're engaged to my sister and don't think about other men the way I do." "Nobody told me it was a possibility." Valentine suddenly discovered he was quite aggrieved.
I think I might have identified with our protagonist Valentine "Flower" the duke of Malvern a bit too much. He is... an arse, but I really do love him, because he's an arse. (Also, this book kind of makes a point that calling someone arse might not actually be insult.) He is a guarded character who tries very hard to keep emotional distance from people because he doesn't want to get hurt and that makes him a bit prickly. He is also demisexual and I suspect somewhere on the spectrum, because he does take certain societal rules very seriously and seems to think those can't be changed, to certain extent this is clearly for comedic purposes, but toward the end it really stretched my suspension of disbelief so I guess this might be an explanation? Idk, the reality is that he really struggles with social situations and I felt that so hard and at times I got a bit angry at the other characters for not giving him time to breathe and think things through. The mistake I will be holding him accountable for though is (view spoiler)[leaving Tarletons all those years ago, that wasn't cool. (hide spoiler)]
The cottage was small and - it was impossible not to notice - somewhat shabby, but meticulously neat. An everyday kind of tragedy: two spinsters doomed to spent the rest of their days in a state of genteel poverty. Still, Valentine admired their commitment to making the best of their situation.
To be fair, he is pressuring Bella/Arabella/Belladona/Miss Tarleton, depending on who is speaking, into marrying him and under normal circumstances it would be impossible for me to side with character like that, but knowing he actually never wanted to marry her and that the idea of marrying anyone was terrifying to him, I actually felt like they should have just sat him down and have a proper conversation with him. Probably wouldn't work at the beginning, but might have later if some characters didn't keep running at every opportunity. Not that I disrespect Bella for running, I absolutely do admire that choice.
"You are aware," Valentine told him, "that there exists a midpoint between forever and never, everything and nothing?" "Moderation, Valentine, should be taken only in moderation.
Then there is our love interest Bonaventura "Bonny" Tarleton who is a hopeless romantic and honestly a delight. Both he and his sister are completely ridiculous in the way they treat reality, but there is also something magnetic about Bonny. I guess I didn't have such a strong reaction to Bonny as I had to Valentine which is why I have a bit trouble finding words. I guess this men is both saint and a bit crazy for wanting to be with Valentine, but I won't take if from them!
The one slight issue that I had with this book is that it starts completely bonkers and doesn't take itself seriously at all - which I loved. Slowly though, more serious themes start to seep in, which again... good BUT my brain had a bit of an issue with switching? In the rompy ridiculous parts there often happen things that I would normally taken more seriously, but here I didn't because it was so far removed from reality and I honestly loved it about this book (it's so hard to make me stop being overly sensitive and nitpicky about some things), but then later characters started to address some of these things and take them seriously and apologize for them and that... surprisingly didn't work that well for me, because then I started analyzing, which was nearly impossible task and kind of dispersed some of the fun. So I guess, either even more ridiculous, or less - but this wasn't a perfect balance for me.
After absolutely adoring Lady for a Duke, I was really hesitant about picking another Alexis Hall, because... I guess I was a bit worried that I might not like the next book I read. That absolutely didn't happen, Something Fabulous was SO different from Lady for a Duke, but I did absolutely fell for it as well. Would recommend, although this absolutely isn't going to be a book for everyone - give it about three pages though and I think you will be sure about whether it's working for you or not....more
Friend. She was thinking of Tea as a friend. But it was more, much more than that. Something people called unnatural. Something she had been far mo
Friend. She was thinking of Tea as a friend. But it was more, much more than that. Something people called unnatural. Something she had been far more afraid of than her canine flesh. Being a dog was easy. Being human, her type of human, was almost impossible.
I was so ready to love this book and it is such a bummer for me that I didn't. I really liked Fitzwater's debut The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper and I was so ready to love this one, especially when I read this bit from the blurb:
Inspired by feminist and LGBTQ+ history and family memories of North Otago in wartime, A.J Fitzwater has turned a piece of forgotten women’s history into a tapestry of furious pride and love that crosses cultures, countries and decades.
Sounds lovely right? Sadly, this didn't quite work for me. It's hard to pinpoint why exactly but I think it comes down to few things.
1. As a story, narratively, this doesn't work very well. The final big action comes sort of... from around the corner and it didn't really fit with the rest of the book very well in my opinion.
2. The writing style was... confusing in places. I had to re-read sentences quite often. Not sure what it was about that exactly but I wasn't the only one with this experience...
3. Tea was... an annoying protagonist. I don't say this often and I feel wrong about saying it here since the reason why she is so annoying is very much internalized homophobia and misogyny. It was just too much, this is a very short book, but hearing things like:
How can women and men be friends like that? Madness from the pain clashing and chewing on Tea's thoughts. They're supposed to get married if they like each other...
got old real quick. It was kind of funny and heartbreaking at the beginning, but since there was only little change throughout the book and only little questioning it wasn't "fun" to read. I would have liked it so much better if it was more actively worked with.
4. I really loved Izzy though and I just... I felt so sorry for her, because Tea was so oblivious that it was painful!
Overall, this was disappointing, but that's life I guess. I will be reading more by Fitzwater in the future. I have planned at least one of their short-stories for this year still. I also definitely want to read more books set in New Zealand!
I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indiff
I felt a sudden, furious rush of sympathy for every Ralian woman who’d ever been the subject of marital bartering; I was ashamed of my prior indifference to the phenomenon, and wondered, with a certain, sick fascination, if being raised in expectation of such a fate made enduring it any easier. Remembering Lady Sine’s testimony, I doubted it.
My feelings about this book are a bit mixed. First of all, I really feel like the blurb should say that this is "healing from rape" story, because that is like at least half of the spine of the book. I actually kind of like romance stories that deal with healing from sexual assault. I think the reason for that is that the one trait the love interest must have is patience and patience is damn sexy to me. So discovering this was a story dealing with rape wasn't negative to me (it's also in author's note, so it's not a surprise once you start reading), but I might not choose to read the book precisely at this moment if I knew. I don't really understand that move, because that is what the book IS about, it should be in the blurb!
And it's also true overall that this story was more darker than I expected. There is the rape (which is on page), serious suicidal ideation and one CW that for some reason isn't in author's note?! Animal death (view spoiler)[graphic death of an animal with personal connection to the MC. I guess it's kind of an actual spoiler which is why it probably wasn't at the beginning of the book, but I feel like the author could have simply added more animals to make it less obvious (hide spoiler)]. Also, you can't just give partial CW without writing at the end that there is more etc. I get that it's impossible to give CW to everything etc. but this is a major one and I feel like there is a lot of people in my vicinity that would be really upset by this. There is also some pretty disgusting homophobia in the beginning, so be aware of that as well - I really kind of hoped that the father would be okay with that and that it will be more societal-pressure kind of thing (which I feel like could have been done and the book would be considerably lighter), but sadly no, some shitty parental behavior! Beware...
Huh, starting strongly on the stuff I didn't like clearly... Might just get the rest out of the way too...
This book also have a pretty masive mystery element which... I didn't love? I ADORE reading court intrigue and I felt like this should read like court intrigue but for some reason it really didn't? This part of the story just felt a bit clumsy to me and I didn't love the villain? (Major spoilers) (view spoiler)[I just... there is the bit about the inheritance of the titles, right? And I didn't really have any opinion of that, apart from thinking from the beginning that clearly Caethari was the one no-one wanted (hide spoiler)]...more
By the evening of the third day after your interrupted bath, you had not slept for eighty-six hours, but you had read a book, and you had made soup
By the evening of the third day after your interrupted bath, you had not slept for eighty-six hours, but you had read a book, and you had made soup three times.
This book was fucking confusing and it was fucking confusing on purpose and how can I even rate that and talk about that?! This book is 500+ pages of a puzzle, almost 20 hours on audio and honestly it was super hard to get through. At the same time I liked it more and less than the first book. The first book confused the hell out of me - same as this one, but this time I at least felt like it was on purpose. I also finally understood what people liked about these books (only took me 1000 pages) and so I had some good time reading this book as well. I guess, my main thought is just... some editing please! Having faith in your readers is one thing, but this is insane. I didn't really manage to review Gideon the Ninth and I think this is all I can manage for Harrow as well.
The narration was gorgeous, some scenes were super fun (soup! especially the soup...), but definitely this was way too long and a bit self-indulgent. It works for a lot of people, so clearly it's also doing a lot of things right, but... some more clarity would have been appreciated by me. I will read the next book because I'm stubborn and I feel like I'm getting the hang of it, but... yeah, not fully for me. Although, I have to admit that I found myself contemplating Gideon re-read while listening to this one, so again, clearly, it's doing something right...
Review this book completely spoiler-free is impossible for me. I will try to keep everything vague and non-specific, but you may come to some conclussReview this book completely spoiler-free is impossible for me. I will try to keep everything vague and non-specific, but you may come to some conclussions based on what I'll write. Consider yourself warned.
"And how, pray tell, do you intend to die?" I decided that keeping him talking was the best strategy, since that at least meant he was conscious. "There are a few front-runners, but I'm leaning toward being devoured by a potential mate after a failed courtship. It seems like a wonderful way to go."
This book is pain in the ass to review, it started a bit slow but developed the intrigue really well and soon I was hooked and had theories. Then somewhere after a 2/3 point the author just decided to pack too much action in, snapped the tension and... wrote completely unsatisfactory ending, bringing this book to 3,5⭐ to me and made me crave The Diabolic re-read. (I still didn't read the second book, because I'm worried I will not like it...)
So what did I liked and can talk about? This book isn't a court intrigue per se, but... it's close enough. I loved the scheming and the politics even though they could have been better developed. I was a bit surprised that this book wasn't even a little bit anti-monarchy, but that's fine by me. I really liked the relationship between Ash and her stepsisters, even though... I wanted more from this. I love to read about damaged family relationships and... if i was writing this, I would up the angst. I felt like there could have been more love in the mix, especially where Seraphina is concerned. And I know that it sounds a bit fucked up, but... it would up the stakes a bit, made some decisions harder. Seraphina was obviously (view spoiler)[a bad person and there needed to be consequences for her actions, but she was still their mother and there seemed to be suspiciously little feelings over sending her to gallows. (hide spoiler)]
Reading the blurb I thought this was going to be a story of women ganging up together and bringing down the power structures that hurt them, but that wasn't really the case... And that's fine, but also... I would have really liked it if the story had more from that. Even though, it would be quite a different story then.
But okay, what is the reason I ended up being a bit annoyed with the book? The romance and the love interest. First I don't really mind insta-love, but... this has a sort of insta-love without a convincing explanation (view spoiler)[from Rance's side at least. He loves her immediately and while don't dislike the fact there isn't enough from him mediating this experience to us. (hide spoiler)] And second, I... hoped there was a certain trope regarding Rance which I love and... it kind of was here, but if felt short a bit? And I'm annoyed about that... (view spoiler)[It's the I, Claudius trope of using a disability to make everyone underestimate you. This was never going to be that exactly, because Rance isn't disabled nor does he pretends to be, but he invents a persona to survive in the court that makes people underestimate him. But... he doesn't really use it to achieve something. He is spying on people but he does NOTHING with the information he gains. This was honestly such a bummer. (hide spoiler)]
Overall, there were a lot of really small things that quite bothered me. This book had laid a great groundwork to have a conversation about consent and... then decided not to have it? It also included quite complex politics net and then... came up with ridiculously easy solution to every problem. This isn't a bad relaxing read (although there are horrible things happening in the book, don't let yourself be fooled by the pretty cover!), but if you start thinking about things too much, you might be disappointed. I am intrigued by some of the other books by the author, so I will be trying more of them. This book was a good time, but definitely disappointing.
I had a bothersome feeling I ought to try and make conversation, but Darius didn't seem burdened by the same impulse, so I let the silence sit. It
I had a bothersome feeling I ought to try and make conversation, but Darius didn't seem burdened by the same impulse, so I let the silence sit. It wasn't uncomfortable, the way I thought it would be. We were both glad to be out in the predawn countryside, about to fly a roc. Words seemed unnecessary.
I do love a good melancholic read so this was absolutely my jam.
Honestly, what else am I supposed to say...? Lot of my buddies didn't really love it, but I think it's perfect for what it's going for. Yes, it's novella so it's pretty short. The fantasy elements are pretty minor for book that's about giant birds, but I feel like that's not really the point here. This book is about love for the wild that can never love you back. It's about showing how complex and problematic this kind of love that makes you tether and broke your roc really is. And above all it's a book that observes a tragedy to unfold. So yeah, pretty angsty and I ate up every second of it.
I will definitely read more by Fonda Lee in the future! Jade City never sounded very appealing to me, but I guess I'm willing to change my mind on it now.
I feel like this book is kind of impossible to review and... on purpose or... it couldn't be another way. Why? Because this is part of a Multiverse seI feel like this book is kind of impossible to review and... on purpose or... it couldn't be another way. Why? Because this is part of a Multiverse series? What is that you ask...?
Multiverse is a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging. It primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. The desire of Multiverse is to serially surface multiple universes of underheard language that might intersect, resonate, and aggregate toward liberatory futures...
Hannah Emerson is a non-speaking autistic poet which was the main reason I picked this collection up. And it perhaps shouldn't be a surprise that I find this collection hard to talk about, especially in a way that would ascribe a specific values to certain parts. I wasn't always sure what the poems were supposed to be about, but some of them resonated deeply. And I think the main theme here is... share love. The word kissing does repeat a lot throughout the collection and I have been reminded of Chuck Tingle's LOVE IS REAL ...more
This is a very short and sweet read that I really enjoyed although I was expecting this to be cozier (there were some heavy topics involved). This is This is a very short and sweet read that I really enjoyed although I was expecting this to be cozier (there were some heavy topics involved). This is a story centering around sapphic ace romance and tea and now I really want to taste the Dorian Gray tea blend. This was really good, but I wanted a bit more out of the story, especially the heavier undercurrents that weren't quite used to all it's potential.
"Pretty sure it's a virus," Clara said. "It looks like the usual sort of thing. Sometimes their owners use them to mass-download porn, and along the way, they pick up something." Sal glanced at Joanie, who fluffed up her wings. "Don't look at me," Joanie protested. "Clara wouldn't make me sort through her porn! If she even looks at that stuff, it sure isn't through me. I'm obviously not going to ask about it-Clara, where do you get it? Your computer? Your computer, right?"
Shame and humiliation are self-imposed emotions, and from here on out, I choose not to feel them.
I still stand by my original review: This was a v
Shame and humiliation are self-imposed emotions, and from here on out, I choose not to feel them.
I still stand by my original review: This was a very enjoyable mess. 3,5⭐ but this book pokes into a lot of things, so a more thorough review is in order. Although to be honest, I'm still not completely sure how to go about it. I feel like maybe this book tried to tackle a little too much and although it did a good job with most of the subjects at first it did end up messing most of them a little bit - in my opinion. Lot of this is obviously very subjective and object of interpretation, but I do believe that this book would benefit from a few more rounds of editing to smooth everything out a bit.
There might be slight spoilers in the review. I'm not mentioning any big plot points, but by mentioning some of the topics... you know, it's hard to decide sometimes what is a spoiler and what's not, so read on on your own risk!
On a lot of levels this book feels like The Hunger Games's heiress and I was very vindicated when I found out that one of my friend's reviews points this out too! Same as Hunger Games this book is very much a social critique, but this time focused on feminism, heteronormativity, monogamy, media... Same as Hunger Games it is a story about taking oppressed people and making them into celebrities while they kill... aliens this time. We also get the MCs using their media image as a way to protect themselves. In some ways Iron Widow goes deeper than Hunger Games did, it cuts the love-triangle bullshit and inserts a polyamorous relationship between three bisexual characters instead, which... it can't get much better than that, right? But where Hunger Games are subtle about it's messaging (really need to do a re-read!) the Iron Widow is laying it painfully thick in moments. Killing girls is bad, we get it! But maybe we could at least partially forgive this since the intended audience of this book are teenagers and patriarchy is indeed rooted deep in our minds. It was frustrating for me though.
But let's talk about our MC Zetian. A lot of people really hate her and say she isn't a feminist heroine. I'm not her biggest fan either, but I suspect for different reasons. People complain that Zetian is a violent character... and yes, she is. She decides that she's going to take out her sister's murderer and she goes for it! Then she decides that she's going to bring down the patriarchy and again, she honestly goes for it! Is it bloody? Obviously... Whether that's feminist or not that would depend on the brand of feminism. The reason why I didn't care for Zetian that much was because she wasn't really being clever about things. When she kills her sister's murderer (this is in the blurb, so not really a spoiler, right?) instead of pretending not knowing what happened and relying on the stereotypical female weakness she drags his body out from the chrysalis and she stomps on him while having a passionate speech! In front of reporter drones! Girl, do you have a death wish?! (As a matter of fact she has a death wish at the moment, but... it's just dumb, I don't like it...) As the story progresses she learns to be more cunning but most of the plans aren't very believable to be honest... it's a good thing that I don't really care about the plot most of the time.
And now to the themes I guess. By the chronological means, I guess I should start with the foot binding, so let's even though I'm worried that it's the most extensive part. At the beginning of the story, I was a little confused how foot binding and the beautifying really play into the theme and fate of mecha warriors, but it did become apparent very soon and I loved that aspect of the book. Of course that if you got giant robots that have to be piloted by a two people (the book actively questions the fact that it has to be piloted by a man and woman, although not very elegantly, but this topic still wasn't explored to my satisfaction, really hope we'll return to it in the next book) patriarchy bullshit would get into it! The fact that the whole book starts with eyebrow-plucking is pretty brilliant.
I had very strong and very conflicted feelings about the foot binding throughout the whole book. The book seems to treat it as a disability which I was a fan of and it adds some interesting layers to the story so I think it's good that it has been included, but... again, the narative is laying it pretty thick. This book actually made me do some foot binding research, because I thought that the descriptions weren't accurate (because they differed from descriptions in Lady Tan’s Circle of Women very much, which I thought read as an extremely well researched book), but it turns out that the Wikipedia descriptions match to the way it was presented in Iron Widow. I honestly didn't have the mental forbearance to dig deeper, so at the moment I have a theory that the practice changed considerably throughout history (which seems the logical conclusion but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere). My research also made me realise that the historical Zetian (the MC is inspired by a historical figure - don't google her, it will spoil some plot points of the book to you) probably didn't have her feet bound? So that made my feelings even more complicated and also impossible to research how the foot binding in that specific time period worked. Although Xiran is very clear that this shouldn't be read as Alt History, which makes sense considering this is futuristic sci-fi...
Nevertheless, I have some issues with the depiction, although I would be willing to change my mind since as I said, I'm definitely not an expert. I felt like the author could have given more practical consideration to what it means to have bound feel - she talks about the pain a lot, but less so about the bad stability. She never talks about the risks bound with falling. I might be miss-remembering this because I wasn't able to locate the bit and it might not be as relevant here since it's a futuristic story, but I remember reading that bound feet made women more prone to breaking their legs (because of the bad stability and slight repositioning of the bones). Zetian is handled very roughly multiple times but it never has consequences to her legs. Her foot even gets stomped on by the boot one time and there are no consequences and no aftercare! The aftercare especially was a great loss in my opinion. Also, she ice-skates, I have to say that that totally broke my suspension of disbelief, I... never want to say that something is impossible for someone to do because of their bodily difference, but... I just can't imagine how it would work and the book never elaborates on it, only saying that it hurts... but I mean the pain isn't really the problem here, right? It's the fact that you need the muscles in your feet and ankles to operate the skates. I don't know, I guess I just don't understand why this was even included, seems like a torture either way.
So from the perspective of reality of bound feet, I felt the book could have done better. But from the perspective of disability-writing it was probably pretty excellent. We see the MC using both cane and wheelchair and apparently the depiction is quite good. See My friend's Reading on Wheels review.
Speaking of torture... there is torture in this book. I'm honestly unsure if it's done well or not. I'm not an expert, but even though it's successful in extracting the information, I thought it wasn't necessarily badly done? (view spoiler)[It's pretty clear that the main motivation of the physical torture part is just to hurt the guy, because revenge. The thing that actually gets the information out of him is threatening to kill his son. But it definitely didn't make me like the protagonists very much... (hide spoiler)] I would like the book better though if the inclusion wasn't necessary.
Now to the thing that turned out to be my biggest cross with the book, which... is kind of surprising... alcoholism. Shimin is alcoholic and at the beginning I thought it was portrayed pretty well. Zetian was really unsympathetic, but Yizhi was there to balance that out with some knowledge of how addictions work and compassion. So it worked pretty well for me, until they both decide to take Shimin to a party full of alcohol when he's still at the beginning of his healing journey! It almost made me scream, I just hate that this was a plot point... Especially since for the whole of it, we are in Zetian's head and she's just kind of judgmental about it, not getting the direness of the situation. I just absolutely hated that.
So yeah, as I said, a lot of strong opinions. The book was very readable to me and I did enjoy it, even though I had some complains throughout. This review was by no means exhaustive and could continue on - there were for example no other positive female characters that would not be dead by the end of the book and the last 10% of the book were confusing and a bit convoluted and I generally wasn't a fan, but then again, I'm not really fan of fights. Overall it was intriguing piece and I'm curious to see where the author will go in the future because this book is definitely rich in ideas. I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel!
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