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A review by justjayneia
King of Sword and Sky by C.L. Wilson
2.0
For the love of ... I just can't with these books anymore. This one I only just barely managed to finish, skimming the last third of the book because I had to see if anything actually moved the story forward (the answer: yes, sort of, but not enough for me to bother with the rest of this series).
Where are this author's editors?!! I enjoyed Book 1 well enough. I eye-rolled a bit at the flying cat stuff, but whatever. Book 2 ... Well, now we're starting to go down a weird path, but there is still promise. But book 3? It's just gotten beyond embarrassing, not to mention a whole lot of nothing happens for a whole lot of time.
To sum it all up:
1) This story didn't need five gigantic tomes in order to be told. With a good editor and 1000x less repetition, this could have been a very satisfying 2 to 3 book read.
2) The heroine is just about the biggest Mary Sue in all of literary history. And that's saying something (I'm looking at you, Bella Swan).
3) The timeframes! Everything is 1000 years? Really?! Everything? How awesome are the Fey really if they let themselves be hamstrung by an insane king for 1000 years? How is it that the most fearsome mated pair in Fey history can't find a way to escape in 1000 years? Or, how did they not go insane after 1000 years of torture? And who wants to be bonded to a murderous king who grieved another woman for 1000 years? That's called hopelessly stuck and sociopathic, and those shei-dalins need to develop some kind of therapy for that.
4) As previously mentioned - using saddles to ride giant, flying, fire breathing cats. I don't even need to elaborate on this one.
5) All of the villains are the very worst and all of the heroes are the very best - nothing is nuanced, there are no shades of gray. It's cartoonish.
6) Why must the author tell us every bit of the book 72 different ways and 172 different times? Tell us once - maybe twice, depending - and tell us well, and then you don't have to repeat the same things over and over and over.
7) The sex - WTF is spirit sex? If it feels and looks and tastes and smells like the real thing then for the love of the gods, JUST LET THEM HAVE THE REAL THING!
Ugh. I love stories about faeries and this had so much potential, but in the end it felt like I was reading a parody of a fantasy romance and everyone else was laughing but me.
Where are this author's editors?!! I enjoyed Book 1 well enough. I eye-rolled a bit at the flying cat stuff, but whatever. Book 2 ... Well, now we're starting to go down a weird path, but there is still promise. But book 3? It's just gotten beyond embarrassing, not to mention a whole lot of nothing happens for a whole lot of time.
To sum it all up:
1) This story didn't need five gigantic tomes in order to be told. With a good editor and 1000x less repetition, this could have been a very satisfying 2 to 3 book read.
2) The heroine is just about the biggest Mary Sue in all of literary history. And that's saying something (I'm looking at you, Bella Swan).
3) The timeframes! Everything is 1000 years? Really?! Everything? How awesome are the Fey really if they let themselves be hamstrung by an insane king for 1000 years? How is it that the most fearsome mated pair in Fey history can't find a way to escape in 1000 years? Or, how did they not go insane after 1000 years of torture? And who wants to be bonded to a murderous king who grieved another woman for 1000 years? That's called hopelessly stuck and sociopathic, and those shei-dalins need to develop some kind of therapy for that.
4) As previously mentioned - using saddles to ride giant, flying, fire breathing cats. I don't even need to elaborate on this one.
5) All of the villains are the very worst and all of the heroes are the very best - nothing is nuanced, there are no shades of gray. It's cartoonish.
6) Why must the author tell us every bit of the book 72 different ways and 172 different times? Tell us once - maybe twice, depending - and tell us well, and then you don't have to repeat the same things over and over and over.
7) The sex - WTF is spirit sex? If it feels and looks and tastes and smells like the real thing then for the love of the gods, JUST LET THEM HAVE THE REAL THING!
Ugh. I love stories about faeries and this had so much potential, but in the end it felt like I was reading a parody of a fantasy romance and everyone else was laughing but me.