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謝 雨停 0102_ — There in the middle I became bored with the direction the storyline went, but toward the end I got back into it. Probably my favorite aspect of this book was to see how Bella adapted to her new life.

Esraa Raafat _s_s — I don't normally give up on books, but I've gotten to the point where my shelves are so full and my list of to-read so long (and still growing) that I've accepted the fact some books aren't worth my time. If they can't grab me in the first 100 pages, even in the first 50, I'm going to put them aside. There must be something, either a cool character (even just ONE), a neat plot, even an interesting writing style, to keep me going. This book had none of those. I don't know if I'm just so used to fantasy books that non-fantasy ones are harder to get into, but this one was...well, hard to get into. The main character sounded pompous and vain and used anachronistic phrases and words that pulled me out of the story (it's told in first person). The other characters felt like flat cutouts whose flaws are flaws that aren't really flaws (naive, too passionate, etc.). None of them felt very deep. I flipped ahead to the end and in between and wasn't very surprised with how the story went. I was surprised to learn the story was actually based on writings from the Ancient Egyptian period, written by the "main character" thousands of years ago. That's pretty interesting, but it leaves me wondering how much of the story is true (at least as true as yet someone else writing down a story can be), and how much was embellishment by the modern author. I might actually research the original scrolls and see what happened, but this book is going in my "donate to library" box. Edit: After researching on Wikipedia I find that the whole "based on real ancient scrolls" bit is a complete lie. Nice going, Mr. Smith.

Fernando Laverde laverde — It reads like a Greek comedy, and I laughed my way through it just as much as I did through I, Claudius, though this one is much more approachable for people who are not classicists. [For IC, you don't get why it's funny unless you read a lot of classics and their translations.]

Elena Theodoridou eldarmeldor — I ended up giving up on this one... I read about half of it. It basically is a collection of various characters whose lives are drastically changed by the war. Depressing with a side of depression, and not alll that much. It was readable, it just got old and depressing, harder to want to pick it up.