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moatzilla's review
challenging
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest and Rape
xiaxia's review
4.0
*ruminating*
This book is messing with my rating system, so you can pick any of the ratings below:
2 stars -> because I was very, very bored. I couldn't strike a connection with any of the characters and by the end of the book the great city of Xochititlan could have burned in a thousand flames and I wouldn't have cared. Also Ahmiki, our main character, was a blind, naive ninny.
But also, maybe, just maybe, I may have awoken on the wrong side of the bed today and not even Mary Renault's lost pages on Alkibiades couldn't have managed to stir any emotion in me (and I would sell 10 years of my life for this).
3 stars -> because I liked very much the documentation behind the world built by the author. I liked the writing style. I liked the descriptions of the clothes, the places, the rituals, the governmental structure. I love details like this.
4 stars -> because maybe I wasn't meant to care about the characters after all but regard them from afar like an observer without any emotion. Like the god Teska’atl in the story.
5 stars --> everything I said under 4 stars plus there is finally one book that comes through on the premise of the story and we don't have a HEA ending. That takes guts. So I'm impressed and definitely a new fan of Adara Wolf.
Final rating an average of the above: 3.5.
This book is messing with my rating system, so you can pick any of the ratings below:
2 stars -> because I was very, very bored. I couldn't strike a connection with any of the characters and by the end of the book the great city of Xochititlan could have burned in a thousand flames and I wouldn't have cared. Also Ahmiki, our main character, was a blind, naive ninny.
But also, maybe, just maybe, I may have awoken on the wrong side of the bed today and not even Mary Renault's lost pages on Alkibiades couldn't have managed to stir any emotion in me (and I would sell 10 years of my life for this).
3 stars -> because I liked very much the documentation behind the world built by the author. I liked the writing style. I liked the descriptions of the clothes, the places, the rituals, the governmental structure. I love details like this.
4 stars -> because maybe I wasn't meant to care about the characters after all but regard them from afar like an observer without any emotion. Like the god Teska’atl in the story.
5 stars --> everything I said under 4 stars plus there is finally one book that comes through on the premise of the story and we don't have a
Final rating an average of the above: 3.5.
quail's review
5.0
I was thoroughly enchanted by this book!
It sets itself apart from any other MM romance I’ve read not only with its theme – human sacrifice and the participants and the relationships of those intimately involved with it -- and content but Adara’s beautiful writing that really manages to bring the story and the setting to life. Ahmiki and those who surround him are wonderful (and often terrible) characters and although the ending is very bittersweet (which is not usually my thing) I loved every second of it.
It sets itself apart from any other MM romance I’ve read not only with its theme – human sacrifice and the participants and the relationships of those intimately involved with it -- and content but Adara’s beautiful writing that really manages to bring the story and the setting to life. Ahmiki and those who surround him are wonderful (and often terrible) characters and although the ending is very bittersweet (which is not usually my thing) I loved every second of it.
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