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A review by mmetacarpals
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
1.25
Ok, so it's my new year's resolution to actually write reviews for the books I read. Here goes nothing:
This book made little to no sense. The world was poorly thought out and hardly explained. (What are Webs? How do Jewels work? How is the world structured? What even is Witch? Multiple realms?? Hell?? The demon-dead v the regular dead??) The events of the book were confusing and none of the character motivations made any sense.
Daemon was "sexy" and boring. Saetan was a little bit fun if you pictured an eternally exasperated old man with little half-moon glasses at the end of his nose. Janelle was supposedly the main character, but every interesting thing she does is told to us after the fact by the men. And Lucivar? He was there for maybe ten pages, and in one of them he bit a woman's clitoris off? That's interesting, I guess.
I had been told that this book was dark, but I felt like all the so-called mature content or dark moments were so poorly written that I didn't even feel the emotional shock that Bishop was attempting to give her audience. Things like sexual violence and slavery were very poorly handled. I felt as though Bishop was trying to say that those things are bad (duh) and that they were so ingrained into this evil society which is why Witch is supposedly going to fix it, but I might just be making that up. As I said, there was little to no world-building, so I can only guess at what she was trying to do.
HOWEVER I could not stop reading. It was like a car crash that I just couldn't look away from. All the little bits of family fluff where Janelle was actually as charming as everyone claimed she was were really fun to read. I cannot in good faith recommend that anyone read this, but I might continue on with the series--- partly because I bought the trilogy bind up (second hand) and partly just to see if there any answers to the many questions I was left with. I've heard that this is the inspiration for Sarah J Maas's books, so I suppose I'm glad I've avoided those.
This book made little to no sense. The world was poorly thought out and hardly explained. (What are Webs? How do Jewels work? How is the world structured? What even is Witch? Multiple realms?? Hell?? The demon-dead v the regular dead??) The events of the book were confusing and none of the character motivations made any sense.
Daemon was "sexy" and boring. Saetan was a little bit fun if you pictured an eternally exasperated old man with little half-moon glasses at the end of his nose. Janelle was supposedly the main character, but every interesting thing she does is told to us after the fact by the men. And Lucivar? He was there for maybe ten pages, and in one of them he bit a woman's clitoris off? That's interesting, I guess.
I had been told that this book was dark, but I felt like all the so-called mature content or dark moments were so poorly written that I didn't even feel the emotional shock that Bishop was attempting to give her audience. Things like sexual violence and slavery were very poorly handled. I felt as though Bishop was trying to say that those things are bad (duh) and that they were so ingrained into this evil society which is why Witch is supposedly going to fix it, but I might just be making that up. As I said, there was little to no world-building, so I can only guess at what she was trying to do.
HOWEVER I could not stop reading. It was like a car crash that I just couldn't look away from. All the little bits of family fluff where Janelle was actually as charming as everyone claimed she was were really fun to read. I cannot in good faith recommend that anyone read this, but I might continue on with the series--- partly because I bought the trilogy bind up (second hand) and partly just to see if there any answers to the many questions I was left with. I've heard that this is the inspiration for Sarah J Maas's books, so I suppose I'm glad I've avoided those.