A review by the_jesus_fandom
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

Did not finish book.

The third person narrative stripped the story of what made it unique: Eugenides' personality. 

The violence was also very over the top. Not that

having people's hands cut off</spoilers> isn't something I regularly see in fiction I read, it's that it's just shown in a... weird way. I don't know how to put it. It probably has something to do with

the begging

and the fact that

Eugenides marries this queen at the end apparantly?

. Yeah, weird.