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A review by spaceonthebookcase
Boudicca by P.C. Cast
2.25
Admittedly I didn't know much about the Iceni tribe or the conquests of Queen Boudicca. For that I am thankful to have picked up this book because it inspired me to do some of my own research into who she was, how she is represented in Britain and the symbol she has become. As an American, we could use some Boudicca's right now.
However the structure and the writing of this book was not well executed and switching to the audiobook format helped slightly because narrator Ell Potter nailed the accent. With clunky dialogue and the overuse of certain words, like Queen, I felt this book was entirely too long. It's like P.C. Cast had a desired word count she wanted to hit and elongated everything to fit that standard. The fact that the word Queen was used more time than there are pages was a bone of contention but also a lot of the graveling by her guard was just overdone.
Another bone of contention was the modern feminism that got spliced into the personality of Boudicca. Also the use of the word rape was used more than once, but that wouldn't have existed in her time. P.C. Cast alternated between rape and brutalized when brutalized should have been standard.
The romance was neither here nor there for me, I think I would have preferred the book without the bedroom scenes.
In total, the subject matter of the book was interesting but the execution was not well done.
Thank you to William Morrow for the gifted copy & Librofm for the gifted ALC.
***Read Across the Globe: England
However the structure and the writing of this book was not well executed and switching to the audiobook format helped slightly because narrator Ell Potter nailed the accent. With clunky dialogue and the overuse of certain words, like Queen, I felt this book was entirely too long. It's like P.C. Cast had a desired word count she wanted to hit and elongated everything to fit that standard. The fact that the word Queen was used more time than there are pages was a bone of contention but also a lot of the graveling by her guard was just overdone.
Another bone of contention was the modern feminism that got spliced into the personality of Boudicca. Also the use of the word rape was used more than once, but that wouldn't have existed in her time. P.C. Cast alternated between rape and brutalized when brutalized should have been standard.
The romance was neither here nor there for me, I think I would have preferred the book without the bedroom scenes.
In total, the subject matter of the book was interesting but the execution was not well done.
Thank you to William Morrow for the gifted copy & Librofm for the gifted ALC.
***Read Across the Globe: England