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A review by kaelstrom
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
2.0
I almost dnf’d this one. There’s a lot of ideas that I want to love. The execution just doesn’t deliver.
I think it was a mistake to wait until the last quarter of the book to make it explicitly clear that Rome is the same Rome of our Earth. There needed to be more to make me believe that a modern version of that empire was making portals through space to other worlds.
The magic is interesting but at the same time sits in the background unless Ruying is using it.
There was not enough of a foundation between her and Antony to believe their relationship at all. We skip through 6 months of time after the first quarter of the book was detailed set up.
Antony’s character suffers tremendously for this. None of his personality was clear and the intent to make him morally grey just made him wishy washy.
I
This story was a disappointment for me.
I think it was a mistake to wait until the last quarter of the book to make it explicitly clear that Rome is the same Rome of our Earth. There needed to be more to make me believe that a modern version of that empire was making portals through space to other worlds.
The magic is interesting but at the same time sits in the background unless Ruying is using it.
There was not enough of a foundation between her and Antony to believe their relationship at all. We skip through 6 months of time after the first quarter of the book was detailed set up.
Antony’s character suffers tremendously for this. None of his personality was clear and the intent to make him morally grey just made him wishy washy.
I
This story was a disappointment for me.