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tikimoof 's review for:
The Hollow Queen
by Elizabeth Haydon
Any problem I have with actual data from the book is probably my fault - I am *heavily* skimming. The dialogue is too awkward, and characters in general are a bit too one-note for me to want to look for anything meaningful.
It's an infuriating mix of too much detail in conversations and actions, followed by lots of glossing over, as somebody gets where they should. A bunch of scenes very poorly connected.
Ashe's temper is what gets me. He comes in and makes ridiculous demands, then gets incredibly angry if anybody thinks about doing the same to him, even his wife - in the same scene! He and Rhapsody are both going around and talking to people saying "oh, of course you've been deceived" and then get pissed off when nobody believes them immediately. And oh, all of the consent issues.
Rhapsody and Ashe can't decide how severity works. We have tens of thousands dying in each (SUPER-SHORT) battle, but yes, let's take time to care about wartime atrocities. It'll totally be that easy to keep all of the men from raping/pillaging. Just because I said so. Yep.
Achmed had some cool action scenes. At least I've got that.
It's an infuriating mix of too much detail in conversations and actions, followed by lots of glossing over, as somebody gets where they should. A bunch of scenes very poorly connected.
Ashe's temper is what gets me. He comes in and makes ridiculous demands, then gets incredibly angry if anybody thinks about doing the same to him, even his wife - in the same scene! He and Rhapsody are both going around and talking to people saying "oh, of course you've been deceived" and then get pissed off when nobody believes them immediately. And oh, all of the consent issues.
Rhapsody and Ashe can't decide how severity works. We have tens of thousands dying in each (SUPER-SHORT) battle, but yes, let's take time to care about wartime atrocities. It'll totally be that easy to keep all of the men from raping/pillaging. Just because I said so. Yep.
Achmed had some cool action scenes. At least I've got that.