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A review by faitelle
A Conspiracy of Alchemists: Chronicles of Light and Shadow by Liesel Schwarz
3.0
This book was peculiarly painful &, at the end, I was left with a feeling of relief, rather than any desire to read the next book in the series.
The problem is...Schwarz can write, she can really write, & the first chapter was fantastic, with really vivid world building & a heroine who sounded capable & cool, like she was going to kick some real butt.
But none of this happened, rather than writing a fantastic adventure story Schwarz chose to write a fairly unconvincing romance with a hero who bored me to death, a heroine who was never allowed to live up to her potential & a whole host of questionable scenes including one, in particular, where a woman is made to feel she has 'cried rape'.
When world building or describing action scenes Schwarz really knew what she was doing, and I loved these moments, but I really wish the whole book had lived up to the promise of its opening lines 3*
The problem is...Schwarz can write, she can really write, & the first chapter was fantastic, with really vivid world building & a heroine who sounded capable & cool, like she was going to kick some real butt.
But none of this happened, rather than writing a fantastic adventure story Schwarz chose to write a fairly unconvincing romance with a hero who bored me to death, a heroine who was never allowed to live up to her potential & a whole host of questionable scenes including one, in particular, where a woman is made to feel she has 'cried rape'.
When world building or describing action scenes Schwarz really knew what she was doing, and I loved these moments, but I really wish the whole book had lived up to the promise of its opening lines 3*