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naomind 's review for:
The Wicked Cometh
by Laura Carlin
There is no way for me to accurately rate this book because I both loved and hated it. I think I may have been delusional, just trying to will this book to be something it wasn't, which was a full-on F/F romance with a well-earned payoff. Instead, I waded through a smoldering, yet CELIBATE slow-burn of a novel that constantly interrupted the tension with inopportune maids/butlers/hit men/putrefaction and after 264 pages there is finally a kiss? After the "first ending," I nearly stopped reading, and only continued because I guess I am a masochist? The "second ending" seemed very tacked-on, and "morning after" which offered only one molecule of consolation to my pummeled heart.
I will admit that I am quite in awe of Carlin's writing, though. Her language was lovely and evocative throughout, and the voice of Hester rang very true to me. If you insist on reading this book, I would only recommend reading until the top of page 267 of the paperback edition! Let your own imagination take it from there, in which Hester and Rebekah get it on, stop the bad guys, and live happily ever after. Nothing after page 267 is worth suffering for.
I will admit that I am quite in awe of Carlin's writing, though. Her language was lovely and evocative throughout, and the voice of Hester rang very true to me. If you insist on reading this book, I would only recommend reading until the top of page 267 of the paperback edition! Let your own imagination take it from there, in which Hester and Rebekah get it on, stop the bad guys, and live happily ever after. Nothing after page 267 is worth suffering for.