Reviews

Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey

a_morrill's review against another edition

4.0

The final book in a very good trio of trilogies. I recommend them all, though I liked the first 3 (Phedre's) best. At any rate, how often do you find a fantasy series with primarily female protagonists and sex positive to boot?

jennkei's review against another edition

2.0

Too much religion. Too much 'creamy smile' and 'sweet boy'. Rather mediocre lead.

laureenreads's review against another edition

5.0

Again, this story is full of lush descriptions and an erotic journey that... yeah, I definitely enjoyed reading. Moirin may not be Phedre, but it's still a fun story to read and get lost in.

syllareads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

tardigrade_in_retrograde's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

coleycole's review against another edition

3.0

Thoroughly enjoyable and devour-able trashy fantasy-romance read:)

feastofblaze's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

jnowal's review against another edition

3.0

Naamah's Kiss was so disappointing that I wasn't very interested in reading the sequel, but I figured that at worst it would be amusingly stupid. I'm glad that I did read it because this book reminded me of the things I enjoyed most about the original Kushiel trilogy - they are just really entertaining books to read, full of different characters and settings but still fast-paced and easy to follow. Like Naamah's Kiss, this book continues to use Moirin's diadh-anam as a ridiculous excuse for plot development, but at least most of the decisions she made could be justified by something other than her "destiny" calling to her. Also like Naamah's Kiss, it's much more simplistic in its plot and themes than the first three books, but at least it's more enjoyable than embarrassing.

moon_reader's review against another edition

3.0

I liked it and I hated it. I hated the religion parts of the book but I loved the idea of soo many different cultures and their god or goddesses being -for lack of better term right now- real in this book. All of the gods and goddesses in this book seemed real in this realm Jacqueline Carey has created for us. The gods and goddesses had their own wishes, gifts, curses, and what pleasantly surprised me was the part where Moirin wisely thought that mankind was the one who puts their own crazy and wrong wishes and add them up with their religion. I admit it I skimmed sooooo many parts and pages, it even seemed like I skimmed between chapters of this book. Course I was reading the first sentence and the last sentence of every page testing and seeing if I wanted to read that page. I don't regret my choice. Course this is because I don't have any good memories of religion and when this book reached to when Moirin got captured and finding out that it was sooo veeeerrrrryyy similar to Christanity I nearly puked and decided not to finish the book. I'm glad I resisted and finished the book :). There are jokes and funny parts and some wisdom later on. Its not all bad. Now when I say bad I mean that in my own tortured soul opinion preference kind-whatever bad, not because it was bad. Jacqueline Carey described many of the religions quite well and true. I can't wait to read more of this series.

pamgodwin's review against another edition

5.0

This is a comprehensive review of the series as a whole:

By far my favorite books ever. An alternative medieval history with a unique slant on religion (not preachy—quite the opposite—the message is to love freely. With a soul-depth delivery). Carey’s stylized writing isn’t for everyone, but I found myself instantly mesmerized by her prose and insanely jealous that she was able to pull it off through all of these books. We’re not talking Shakespearean—she certainly takes on that feel but without the difficulty in interpretation. The series is an unforgettable and fantastic odyssey through an alternate geography and time (based on real history) and Carey does it brilliantly. There is a BDSM flavor in every book. Plenty of sex, bloody battles, torture and magic.