royahellbender 's review for:

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless

3.0

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I really wanted to like this book, but while it seemed well-researched and built the world well, there was so little plot and the characters were flat. Additionally, I didn’t like Gormflaith at all. I thought she was an awful person with a one-track mind who kept tearing other women down. She tells her stepdaughter that she’s stupid and that she doesn’t care about her because she’s not her “real daughter”, and then similarly berates her son’s wife. Her being a Fomorian hardly ever comes up in a way that influences the story at all, and our other PoV character Fodla’s story never seems to have anything to do with Gormflaith.