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Guh.

Revisado: 04-08-24

This was a good time killer, but the trope of the female lead character rocking up to a battlefield with no experience, saving everyone, then negotiating prime deals with other heads of state, getting what she thinks her whole kingdom needs (lots of insightful oversight) but that she doesn’t know she’s pregnant annoys me to no end. I give a lot of leeway in the believability of romance novels but that one just kills it. So frolicking in a garden with a sword is enough experience and training to defeat un-defeatable monster creatures, but banging a dude relentlessly for months with a guaranteed ‘fertile womb’ is shocking to find out she’s a couple months along being pregnant? To the point where her dude has already called the midwife and she still is shocked? Sure, Pam. Okie dokie.

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Just the thing

Revisado: 03-20-24

This was a delight. I generally am waiting for the eye-roll ridiculous in fantasy romances and this one nailed the story and characters. Sure there’s some thing that stretch believability within the framework of the author’s world, but the thing I liked most is that the main character is believable while pulling off some very intriguing plot developments. I would even go so far to say this was better than ACOTAR or the Crescent City books.

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Oh nooooooo

Revisado: 03-16-24

Have you seen memento? Where Lenny has short term amnesia and it makes him a frustrating, unreliable, but still likeable narrator? And you know he is going to make mistakes and be taken advantage of, but you see him trying to sort his story out? This lady is Lenny but doesn’t have the amnesia to blame for being a ding dong. I love a good dumpster fire but this was painful, repetitive idiotic saga. I know it is harder to critique than create, there are some elements that could have made this book at least a 3 but ding dong lady can’t pick a lane, can’t decide if she’s going to die, can’t can’t can’t can’t. The cover art is cool!

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Love it.

Revisado: 06-13-21

Weird. Wonderful. Dry. Witty. Humans are so weird. The narrator is fantastic with catching the wry humor in some of the horror.

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Quickly!

Revisado: 11-12-20

She did it again. This book is a glimpse into a different kingdom than the normal thief kingdoms but with the same twists and a little bit, maybe, of omnipotent interference. Good for settling in for just the story, or analyzing to try to figure out Gen’s endgame. It’s always Gen.

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Like a russian-esque Sabriel

Revisado: 08-16-19

This is great story. Well written with good character arcs and storytelling. I was captivated.

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Aha!!

Revisado: 12-07-17

Slow at first but then gets the traction. I miss tim curry and almost fell asleep a few times/had to rewind but once in through it- aha! Moment. Love this world and all the details/dichotomy.

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Whaaaaaaaaat?! That's why its a free book!

Revisado: 11-08-12

Would you try another book from Nora Roberts and/or MacLeod Andrews?

Nope. The writing is like eating cardboard. Fairly sure no beneficial/interesting/romantic/or to keep with the metaphor, nutritional value whatsoever. If I were a buffalo in Yellowstone park in the middle of winter and the only option was cardboard nutritional grass (this book) I would opt in for being eaten by wolves. That was serious.

What was most disappointing about Nora Roberts’s story?

See above. And here is a little more:
card·board
   [kahrd-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
1.
a thin, stiff pasteboard, used for signs, boxes, etc.
2.
resembling cardboard, especially in flimsiness
3.
not fully lifelike; shallow; two-dimensional.


Overall: thin, stiff, flimsy, not lifelike, shallow and two dimensional.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

While a guy doing the narrating is my preference, and this one has good vocal distinction and character development, who on this entire great green earth wants to hear the nagging kid voice?! For over 5 minutes? Mother of god, no one! Really not his fault, but still.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Uhhhhhhh. Rhetorical question?

Any additional comments?

Now I see why it was free.

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