It's good to hear I'm not the only one! It's got an average rating of 4.23 at goodreads.
I hadn't heard anything about them, other than Carey did a lot of research and has a lot of fans. I'd seen the book on the shelf at the store a bunch of times, thought it was pretty, and never bought it (because I didn't know anyone who'd read it and could tell me whether it was good.) So I checked it out of the library about a year ago, and it took me forEVER to get into it. Nothing happened until the middle of the book! She killed the only sympathetic characters! Phedre was annoying! The writing, especially the "If I'd known then that passing him the butter would lead to tragedy, I would never have passed it" type of shit, bored me to tears. (Like in this review) The only reason I finished it was because people promised me it got better. THEY LIED.
I wrote three blog posts on it last year: 1, 2, 3.
Apparently I hated all the characters and wanted the Skaldi to defeat those prissy, self-absorbed d'Angelines. That sounds about right.
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I hadn't heard anything about them, other than Carey did a lot of research and has a lot of fans. I'd seen the book on the shelf at the store a bunch of times, thought it was pretty, and never bought it (because I didn't know anyone who'd read it and could tell me whether it was good.) So I checked it out of the library about a year ago, and it took me forEVER to get into it. Nothing happened until the middle of the book! She killed the only sympathetic characters! Phedre was annoying! The writing, especially the "If I'd known then that passing him the butter would lead to tragedy, I would never have passed it" type of shit, bored me to tears. (Like in this review) The only reason I finished it was because people promised me it got better. THEY LIED.
I wrote three blog posts on it last year: 1, 2, 3.
Apparently I hated all the characters and wanted the Skaldi to defeat those prissy, self-absorbed d'Angelines. That sounds about right.