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A review by psycheplays
An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
2.0
Honestly, I love Linnea Sinclair's style of writing. Even though I hated this book, her writing style still gripped me enough to make me finish. I just couldn't get behind the characters at all. First of all, Mack seemed a little too perfect, even down to the use of the phrase "...if he had a flaw...". If that was meant to be ironic, it wasn't clear, and came off as ridiculous. Gillie was too goodie two shoes, considering she was being portrayed as rough-around-the-edges, which meant that reading that it was "abhorrent" to her to use someone for her own gain just didn't really sit well with me. It could've been left out, we would've accepted that she wasn't using Mack!
And finally, the parrots. I get that they had a point in the end, but by all that is good, why were they there? Just saying there were hundreds of parrots on station and making a comment about them being linked to shift changes repeatedly didn't explain for one second why they were hundreds of parrots...on a SPACE STATION.
Overall, just not a good book. Felt a bit Mary Sue/Gary Stu-ish, and was overall very disappointing considering how much I adored Gabriel's Ghost and Shades of Dark. This is ironic, since I was frustrated by both of these books because of the way telepathy was portrayed, and how it was referenced almost like it was rape, and yet it was dealt with very lightly. I still enjoyed them despite this. And yet so many people hate those books for being sexist, for portraying the female lead as vapid and flat etc. And yet so many people love this book and are willing to brush over the jealousy and possessiveness and how Gillie is treated like an item to be owned.
Oh, and one last note. Hair like "moonlight and starlight"? And eyes that were "green yet lavender"? What were you thinking, Sinclair?!
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Apart from that, Mack's jealousy just got on my nerves. They'd known each other for about a week when he started acting possessive and ridiculous. The cliché of Gillie falling into Tobias' arms and Mack walking in at just the right moment to be jealous had me rolling my eyes. Not to mention the fact that he proposed so quickly. That just made no sense to me. It didn't help that we never really heard whether Gillie agreed or not, and he seemed happy to just leave the question hanging in the air right to the very end.And finally, the parrots. I get that they had a point in the end, but by all that is good, why were they there? Just saying there were hundreds of parrots on station and making a comment about them being linked to shift changes repeatedly didn't explain for one second why they were hundreds of parrots...on a SPACE STATION.
Overall, just not a good book. Felt a bit Mary Sue/Gary Stu-ish, and was overall very disappointing considering how much I adored Gabriel's Ghost and Shades of Dark. This is ironic, since I was frustrated by both of these books because of the way telepathy was portrayed, and how it was referenced almost like it was rape, and yet it was dealt with very lightly. I still enjoyed them despite this. And yet so many people hate those books for being sexist, for portraying the female lead as vapid and flat etc. And yet so many people love this book and are willing to brush over the jealousy and possessiveness and how Gillie is treated like an item to be owned.
Oh, and one last note. Hair like "moonlight and starlight"? And eyes that were "green yet lavender"? What were you thinking, Sinclair?!