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librose 's review for:
Winterkeep
by Kristin Cashore
Sorry, DNF at 20%.
I remember liking the other Graceling novels, and it really has been a very long time since the last one. Maybe they aren't actually as good as I thought in retrospect, if this is book's quality if consistent with the previous ones.
What has done me in is how the Queen with the silly name conducts her royal duties not unlike the president of an afterschool club - no servants, no ministers, no actual duties beyond bumming around a castle that feels very empty apart from her immediate gang of friends. Everyone seems rather too busy talking about who is dating who, who is having sex... I feel like I'm reading a fanfic of the other Graceling books.
When you can lift the characters out of the fantasy and implant them into a high school setting without needing to change their dialogue or behaviour, I think there's a problem.
I remember liking the other Graceling novels, and it really has been a very long time since the last one. Maybe they aren't actually as good as I thought in retrospect, if this is book's quality if consistent with the previous ones.
What has done me in is how the Queen with the silly name conducts her royal duties not unlike the president of an afterschool club - no servants, no ministers, no actual duties beyond bumming around a castle that feels very empty apart from her immediate gang of friends. Everyone seems rather too busy talking about who is dating who, who is having sex... I feel like I'm reading a fanfic of the other Graceling books.
When you can lift the characters out of the fantasy and implant them into a high school setting without needing to change their dialogue or behaviour, I think there's a problem.