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nrskelley 's review for:
Bound to the Shadow Prince
by Ruby Dixon
slow-paced
A princess is locked away in a tower for 7 years and her only company is a Monstrous prince from an enemy race. I’m a fan of fantasy so hey this sounded good.
THE BIG PROBLEM: in my humble opinion this book should have been edited down. This book is terribly long. The ebook is 55 chapters. The audiobook is 21 hours. And you’re initially talking about a book that has two characters locked in a tower together who don’t even really speak for the first 9 chapters. So it's pretty slow. . I don't need to read whole chapters about cooking stew and candles and medicine. It gets repetitive in the Princess’ head.
the logistics of being locked in a tower designed like this one don't make sense to me at all. The tower has no door and *no windows* - not even slits to let in light or air. She spends the first few months just sitting in the dark. She has nothing but work to do - no books, no sewing, nothing. How did they expect her to pass her 7 years like that. In the first year there are periods of many weeks where doesn’t speak to anyone. Not to mention the food situation - they get a year's worth of food delivered. No fresh fruit and veggies so they're probably both going to die from malnourishment.
Basically they then turn it into a free for all alien/human forced proximity sex thing. This almost became a DNF for me. I know there will be people who like it just for the spice. I am apparently not that person.
THE BIG PROBLEM: in my humble opinion this book should have been edited down. This book is terribly long. The ebook is 55 chapters. The audiobook is 21 hours. And you’re initially talking about a book that has two characters locked in a tower together who don’t even really speak for the first 9 chapters. So it's pretty slow. . I don't need to read whole chapters about cooking stew and candles and medicine. It gets repetitive in the Princess’ head.
the logistics of being locked in a tower designed like this one don't make sense to me at all. The tower has no door and *no windows* - not even slits to let in light or air. She spends the first few months just sitting in the dark. She has nothing but work to do - no books, no sewing, nothing. How did they expect her to pass her 7 years like that. In the first year there are periods of many weeks where doesn’t speak to anyone. Not to mention the food situation - they get a year's worth of food delivered. No fresh fruit and veggies so they're probably both going to die from malnourishment.
Basically they then turn it into a free for all alien/human forced proximity sex thing. This almost became a DNF for me. I know there will be people who like it just for the spice. I am apparently not that person.