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adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
As a history buff who knows American history, and is familiar with indigenous people of North America and a solid understanding of Greek mythology/gods: knowing the author is playing fast and loose with the actual history — means I cannot believe a thing related to Roman culture/history thus this became a hate read.
- Book described Roman’s mom going to Philadelphia and encountering Kiowa and Sioux Peoples. Kiowa people, are originally from the Kansas, southern Great Plains. The Sioux Nation begins at the Mississippi River — no where near Philadelphia. Unless his mom came from the Pacific Coast she would not have encountered the Sioux or Kiowa people.
- British people did not ever refer to the colonies in the americas as the “united colonies.” Like dude, did you have the United States and it didn’t match your timeline so you changed it
- Romans did not worship the Greek gods. They had their own. The dead were not taken across the River Styx.
- Sometime in chapter 28 or so, the author changed the main character’s name (who had been referred to as Roman). Also the same time, his main enemy finally had a last name. It was weird.
Then, from the perspectives of author choices it is inconceivable that:
1. Roman’s mom would have means to get to America, live with people who were settled almost a 1,000 miles from where she was supposedly traveling, and THEN had means for her and her bastard born son to travel back to England. For him to return to revolutionary war-era America.
2. It takes a lot of heat, thus fuel, and it would have taken more than a couple minutes to gather enough wood. Also, time. It takes time to burn a body. And, post cremation, there would be bones. So getting back before dawn is not realistic.
2. It takes a lot of heat, thus fuel, and it would have taken more than a couple minutes to gather enough wood. Also, time. It takes time to burn a body. And, post cremation, there would be bones. So getting back before dawn is not realistic.
3. Also, talking reality: if Amara was a healer, she would have been freaking busy post-battle. Traveling with an army is NOT like having clinic hours.
4. OK, so she not only remembered the incantation, but absolutely could instantly translate it. Yeah, right.
5. So… there was so much pacing issues. Like, the first third of the book is so slow. And thus, so much happened so quickly and was rushed. In addition, the belief of their soulmate-ness is hard to believe.