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esadday 's review for:
Knight Awakened
by Coreene Callahan
Lyrical Descriptions and Great Story
Mayhap it was one of the better fantasies I’ve read recently. Mayhap I will purchase the rest of the series, since the world and the characters sucked me in. Mayhap you’ll like it, too. Mayhap my overuse of mayhap has become annoying? Quite right, but it’s courtesy of Callahan’s overuse of the word that has driven me to this (not just spoken but in their thoughts, too). About a third of the way through, I’d been mayhap’d enough to last the rest of the month and spent the rest of the time thinking of easy ways Callahan could have avoided using the word. Fingers crossed her next novel won’t be so cursed.
And yet, I gave it 5 stars. Why? Because even with this foible, I loved the story, the world building, the characters. Coincidences *aren’t* since the Goddess is actively working in their lives (she visits them a few times).
One of the things I liked the most was the flawed characters. They’ve done some terrible things, but sadistic adults who should have taken care of them as children are the cause of most of their pain. And as the barbarism is revealed, you really aren’t surprised by anything but the fact that these children grew up and kept their goodness intact.
One of the main baddies gets his, but there’s still other villains to come and I look forward to seeing how our characters and the Goddess deal with the challenge. Mayhap they’ll mayhap them to death. Nah, that’s not what assassins do. They sharpen their knives and slide out of the shadows to take care of things. So much the better! No mayhap about it.
Be warned; this story does contain explicit content of both the violent, head-lopped-off and the steamy kind.
Mayhap it was one of the better fantasies I’ve read recently. Mayhap I will purchase the rest of the series, since the world and the characters sucked me in. Mayhap you’ll like it, too. Mayhap my overuse of mayhap has become annoying? Quite right, but it’s courtesy of Callahan’s overuse of the word that has driven me to this (not just spoken but in their thoughts, too). About a third of the way through, I’d been mayhap’d enough to last the rest of the month and spent the rest of the time thinking of easy ways Callahan could have avoided using the word. Fingers crossed her next novel won’t be so cursed.
And yet, I gave it 5 stars. Why? Because even with this foible, I loved the story, the world building, the characters. Coincidences *aren’t* since the Goddess is actively working in their lives (she visits them a few times).
One of the things I liked the most was the flawed characters. They’ve done some terrible things, but sadistic adults who should have taken care of them as children are the cause of most of their pain. And as the barbarism is revealed, you really aren’t surprised by anything but the fact that these children grew up and kept their goodness intact.
One of the main baddies gets his, but there’s still other villains to come and I look forward to seeing how our characters and the Goddess deal with the challenge. Mayhap they’ll mayhap them to death. Nah, that’s not what assassins do. They sharpen their knives and slide out of the shadows to take care of things. So much the better! No mayhap about it.
Be warned; this story does contain explicit content of both the violent, head-lopped-off and the steamy kind.