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Jean Zimmer jeanzimmer — weird idea... startlingly enjoyable and engaging novel... not too depressing!

Xuan Qibin xuan_qb — it's convenient for john berendt that everyone he wanted to talk to was insanely good-looking and insanely sophisticated and insanely fawning-all-over-him. I remember thinking that midnight in the garden of good and evil was kind of fun, but this book . . . wasn't. there was no big mystery, there was no anything, really. except for venetian society being mighty impressed with j. berendt.

Christoph Hagen christophhagen — The best Bosch with minor literary tropes to give this book aspirations beyond a mere thriller.

Bojan Mesar bojanmesar — ** spoiler alert ** A companion novel to Graceling, which I hardly remember; looking back at my review of Graceling, that's unsurprising, since apparently I found that underwhelming. Anyway. Lady Fire is a monster--called so because she possesses irresistible beauty and allure and the ability to control minds. Her late, unlamented father helped bring the kingdom of the Dells near to ruin; now Fire is being asked to use her powers to help restore it. But Fire has a natural wariness for using her ability to control people's minds for any reason. The plot raises some interesting questions about the cost of beauty, and what it means to be an object of desire, and in doing so puts a couple twists on the traditional gender roles of high fantasy. Unfortunately, Cashore's writing is not strong enough to quite pull this off. Fire is effectively a telepath, so much of the action in the book is thinking. Which is fine: I like psychological drama, and not all fantasy needs to be of the sword-swinging variety, but it's the sort of narrative that depends a lot on strong prose. Alas, halfway through the book, I found myself remembering what the actress who played Deanna Troi in Star Trek: TNG used to say about how hard it was to make telepathy interesting from the outside. Though I don't remember much about Graceling, I do recall that Katsa and Po's relationship was my favorite thing about it. The central romance here didn't work for me so well. I could see why Brigan was supposed to be the hero--I mean, he walks on the page, and you know he's the male lead--but I didn't feel that. It's possible that my timing as a reader was unfortunate here: having just read Finnikin of the Rock, where I loved both Finnikin and Evanjalin, I may have come into this other YA fantasy with somewhat inflated standards. The book's attitudes toward sexuality was a pleasant surprise in a teen fantasy, though that may just reflect how the genre's standards have changed since I was an actual teen. However, the tangle of relationships in the older generation became a bit much at the end. Brigan's parentage felt like a bit like a copout, especially in a story that is generally positive about families of choice. I'll continue to file Cashore's work under "good, not great."