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A review by hank
The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
1.0
Review behind the spoiler tag because I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment of the book/series
Brett seemed to enjoy coming up with more and varied ways to humiliate and subjucate women. Constant rapes, forced mariages, incest, menial slave labor etc. At first I understood it to be a setup of the "bad guy" and then it got tiresome and then it got loathsome.
It is an inventive world and there are teasing mysteries but I couldn't get past the seemingly purposeless mysogeny.
Will definitely not read the next even though I already own it.
Spoiler
I absolutely hated this book. It was somewhat of a rehash of book one from a different character's perspective. I loathed that character and hated his culture. I get the similarities with curent arab culture and possibly even closer similarities with past arab cultures but that doesn't mean I want to read about that or think that much of it is true.Brett seemed to enjoy coming up with more and varied ways to humiliate and subjucate women. Constant rapes, forced mariages, incest, menial slave labor etc. At first I understood it to be a setup of the "bad guy" and then it got tiresome and then it got loathsome.
It is an inventive world and there are teasing mysteries but I couldn't get past the seemingly purposeless mysogeny.
Will definitely not read the next even though I already own it.