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Cultural appropriation! SO MUCH CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.
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I can’t explain why this annoyed me so much, but damn. Like, you don’t have to use their name in every sentence. This is kind of random but the names of characters are used way too much.I can’t point to a specific moment, but the general feeling the book left me with is that there should have been much more show. There was, generally speaking, too much tell and not enough show.At one point one of the characters got really into religion as well, and while this could have been interesting, it was just tedious to read. I mean, no one talks for three pages without their friend interrupting or reacting.
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Even when the story was more exciting, the action would be broken up by really long, obnoxiously intense speeches and debates. This is a very political fantasy book, and while I enjoyed parts of that, starting with political discussions isn’t exactly a recipe for ‘hooked from the first page’. Writing wise, the start was really slow.Okay, let’s get straight into the awful stuff so we can at least end it on a slightly positive note. The next Moontide is getting nearer, and some magical shit is going down. Mage’s Blood is the first book in the Moontide Quartet series, set in an epic fantasy world in which two continents are separated by a bridge that can only be crossed once every 12 years. (I’ve been putting off writing this review for ages, simply because this book was problematic as hell and it’s gonna make for a damn long blog post.