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A review by raemelle
Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey
3.0
Well, the hardback edition of this book that I read had a slew of typos/grammatical errors. These made some of the rambling and unclear sentences even harder to understand. My biggest problem was when a pronoun wouldn't be defined, and one paragraph would refer to two or three people of the same gender. I had to read those parts several times, and sometimes still move on while unclear who was talking about who.
And though it was a touch less prominent in this book, the back door bragging and "I don't care about rich things" bull was still present and annoying. The overly goody-two-shoes good guys versus the blatantly all-evil bad guys. Black and white. No shades of grey in these stories.
I did appreciate the twist on the original slipper story, and its bloody involvement with the stepsisters.
This story didn't keep me very attached. It was an okay read, and I'll read the next book in the Elemental series, but it was easy to find more entertaining things to do than read this book. For that reason, it took me longer than usual to finish.
And though it was a touch less prominent in this book, the back door bragging and "I don't care about rich things" bull was still present and annoying. The overly goody-two-shoes good guys versus the blatantly all-evil bad guys. Black and white. No shades of grey in these stories.
I did appreciate the twist on the original slipper story, and its bloody involvement with the stepsisters.
This story didn't keep me very attached. It was an okay read, and I'll read the next book in the Elemental series, but it was easy to find more entertaining things to do than read this book. For that reason, it took me longer than usual to finish.