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A review by annarien
Wraeththu: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, the Bewitchments of Love and Hate, the Fulfilments of Fate and Desire by Storm Constantine
2.0
Two stars because in spite of all my thwarted expectations... I plowed through to the end of this series with some residual interest for the conclusion left to drive me. I've wanted to read these books since forever but somehow never got around to it and now... with years of expectations built up on sand... I can finally put the series with the impossible to remember name to rest.
Did I enjoy it? Not really. The premise was great. The idea worthy of exploring... it could have been amazing in every way and yet... what I got was a whole lot of mystical mumbo jumbo, wrapped in awkward metaphors and truly atrocious dialogue. I have never in life been so frustrated with the dialogues in a book before. Perhaps the authoress wanted to keep the aura of mystery going, but instead managed to make the characters who talked seem disjointed and off their rocker.
There could have been world building too. That is one of the beauties in post apocalyptic scenarios. There should have been world building.... but instead there were a lot of stupid names for places and people... hardly any descriptions and just random infodump here and there.
And let's not even talk about the sex scenes. What scenes and what sex, I ask you. We got a new species and new organs and new names for everything, I get that... but instead of it being sensual and exciting... such erotica as there was in these books felt more like cringing at graphic tentacle porn. Wrapped up in awkward metaphors and mystical mumbo jumbo, of course.
Why two stars, then? Because Calanthe. Because screwed up as he is, he's made the books bearable.
Did I enjoy it? Not really. The premise was great. The idea worthy of exploring... it could have been amazing in every way and yet... what I got was a whole lot of mystical mumbo jumbo, wrapped in awkward metaphors and truly atrocious dialogue. I have never in life been so frustrated with the dialogues in a book before. Perhaps the authoress wanted to keep the aura of mystery going, but instead managed to make the characters who talked seem disjointed and off their rocker.
There could have been world building too. That is one of the beauties in post apocalyptic scenarios. There should have been world building.... but instead there were a lot of stupid names for places and people... hardly any descriptions and just random infodump here and there.
And let's not even talk about the sex scenes. What scenes and what sex, I ask you. We got a new species and new organs and new names for everything, I get that... but instead of it being sensual and exciting... such erotica as there was in these books felt more like cringing at graphic tentacle porn. Wrapped up in awkward metaphors and mystical mumbo jumbo, of course.
Why two stars, then? Because Calanthe. Because screwed up as he is, he's made the books bearable.