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A review by depizan
The Wizard of London by Mercedes Lackey
2.0
I just don't know about this series. I decided to give it a second chance after someone I know on another website started reading their way through the series, but oh dear bog.
This had pretty much the exact same problems as the other book in this series I read: the awkward attempts at being diverse*, the (I suspect) questionable historical accuracy, the plot showing up well over halfway through the book, the rushed ending... I don't remember Lackey's books being this much of a mess in the past. (Or I was less likely to notice some of the problems?)
It's probably also not a good sign that I didn't know what fairy tale the book was based on until I came here and saw other reviews. The plot (such as it is) is just so far removed from The Snow Queen that even with ice magic involved, I didn't think of it. The guy in need of saving is just kind of there until a couple of chapters from the end of the book, and it's not even his old girlfriend who first thinks of saving him.
Meh.
*Note: Diverse = good. Except not so much when I have the strong suspicion that it would be off-putting to people of the ethnicity (or other group) the author is trying to include. (Or when they only exist as servants of the white people.)
This had pretty much the exact same problems as the other book in this series I read: the awkward attempts at being diverse*, the (I suspect) questionable historical accuracy, the plot showing up well over halfway through the book, the rushed ending... I don't remember Lackey's books being this much of a mess in the past. (Or I was less likely to notice some of the problems?)
It's probably also not a good sign that I didn't know what fairy tale the book was based on until I came here and saw other reviews. The plot (such as it is) is just so far removed from The Snow Queen that even with ice magic involved, I didn't think of it. The guy in need of saving is just kind of there until a couple of chapters from the end of the book, and it's not even his old girlfriend who first thinks of saving him.
Meh.
*Note: Diverse = good. Except not so much when I have the strong suspicion that it would be off-putting to people of the ethnicity (or other group) the author is trying to include. (Or when they only exist as servants of the white people.)