A review by bennysbooks
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.

I was so excited for this - fantasy + smutty BDSM? Yes, please. But omg I could not get past the prose, or the heavy-handed and persistent foreshadowing, or the dry info-dumping. Some of the worldbuilding was cool (I appreciated the story of Elua and the angels), but the political intrigue fell flat almost immediately (somehow both entirely unoriginal and needlessly confusing? I dunno). I only spent two/three days with this book, but each time I went to pick it up my heart sank. Seriously bummed.