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Red Sonja: Consumed
by Gail Simone
As always, thank you to Orbit Books for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC!
Publish Date: Nov 19th
Let's start with the good things...
I loved the multiple POVs. I enjoy being able to see whats currently happening with each involved party as the story goes on and then seeing them all collide at the end. I also LOVED Sonja's relationship and interaction with her horse. They were quite the dynamic duo!
And now the icky things...
This whole book was a contradiction. I have a weird suspicion that the author has some kind of twisted "love"-hate relationship with fantasy novels. I don't know if this is the authors first novel outside of her normal comic book writing, but that's what it feels like. "I should write a fantasy novel to try to make it into the main stream" and then wrote what she thought a "stereotypical" fantasy novel should be.
The result was mostly a complete mess. She gave us the same ol' linear, attractive, brutal, ill mannered, half naked and frivolous FMC. Red Sonja is a legend...a myth...but she manages to get snuck up on and caught off guard too many times to count by nobodies. This was too close to a comic book that you would expect the same cheesy scenes from just done a little different where you chuckle and enjoy yourself. Definitely not a fantasy novel.
Publish Date: Nov 19th
Let's start with the good things...
I loved the multiple POVs. I enjoy being able to see whats currently happening with each involved party as the story goes on and then seeing them all collide at the end. I also LOVED Sonja's relationship and interaction with her horse. They were quite the dynamic duo!
And now the icky things...
This whole book was a contradiction. I have a weird suspicion that the author has some kind of twisted "love"-hate relationship with fantasy novels. I don't know if this is the authors first novel outside of her normal comic book writing, but that's what it feels like. "I should write a fantasy novel to try to make it into the main stream" and then wrote what she thought a "stereotypical" fantasy novel should be.
The result was mostly a complete mess. She gave us the same ol' linear, attractive, brutal, ill mannered, half naked and frivolous FMC. Red Sonja is a legend...a myth...but she manages to get snuck up on and caught off guard too many times to count by nobodies. This was too close to a comic book that you would expect the same cheesy scenes from just done a little different where you chuckle and enjoy yourself. Definitely not a fantasy novel.