I read this book after not liking or hating the first book. Why? Because I WANT to love KA's magical world, she creates a world full of magic that you just can't hate.. I mean TIGERS talk to women. How cool is that?
I juist hate how she tries to make romance out of shitty situations.
The cover, such as the first book, I liked. It's symple yet gets the message across. Nice. the price however.. I hated this book so much more than the first book and it was about triple in price (probably because the first one, Fantasyland, was an absolute joke in price).
I'm not a lightweight when it comes to cursing and using strong language. Not at all. But I feel like it's so out of place and so overused in this book. It just didn't feel right for the character or the situations most of the time. I have to admit, certain moments I would have used a lot worse than what Circe used. But most of the time I was like.. Language!
Secondly, I'm sorry but there is nothing romantic about the situation. She gets raped after being hunted, raped 3 more nights after that... But on the 4th night, he uses some forplay and suddenly she's enjoying it and wants it.
I feel like this is a spit in the face of all women who got raped and will get raped in the future. It's saying if your rapist is handsome just fall in love with him. Everything will be fine. It's saying, if your rapist tries to give you some pleasure, it's okay.
No! It is NOT okay.
I understand that her stories are based on finding the strength and some sort of romance in making the best out of a horrible situation but the whole rape at the start of the book and I love you at the end of the book.. Just.. No... I see that either people rate this book 5 stars, thinking Lahn is hot and hunky and he is romantic.. Or they rate it 0-1 stars because of the rape scenes.
I feel like I want to look past the rape point and find some sort of story of how Circe gets through it. How she makes the best out of it because she has no way out. But there are lines I feel as a woman I don't want to cross. I refuse to believe in love after rape.. In love when your husband gets angry if you ask to not sleep with slaves anymore..
Another thing that bothered me about this book was how it felt SO SO SO much like Game of Thrones. Daenerys and Khal Drogo. I wondered if I was the only person wondering this but Goodreads showed me that about EVERYONE reading this book had the same feeling.. Should there be some rule against that? I mean I think it's obvious to notice where her inspiration came from..
I didn't like the main heroine again.. I liked her more than Fantasyland.. But again the overuse of a certain word. Cool this time. The way she just goes with it. Atleast this time I had a feeling she held more intelligence.. Circe was somewhat able to get more sympathy out of me.
I want to like this world, I want to enjoy these stories... But when rape is excused by saying "it's their way".. I can get it if it's in some historical context but I can't accept it as a novel. An epic tale of romance. I just can't.
By the way.. Circe always seems to be shopping or eating with friends while Lahn is out doing kingly stuff and being too busy to spend time with her.. She being queen and all, should she not be doing something interesting? I feel like nothing really happens in the book...
Cover: 2
Price: 1
Story: 0.5
Characters: 1
Overall:1
this book gets a 5.5.. I wish I could give it more.. Again the world is awesome.. But the situations in the book make it that I just totally want to burn this book out of frustration. I feel like it's disrespectful to women to imply that if you try a little bit you could fall in love with a rapist. I don't know if i'm making a bigger deal out of it than it is but for me, this is a step too far.
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