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ASIN: 0553574302
ID #113845
The Chalice and the Blade   (Rated: GC)
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: Jayngle Bells Author Icon
Review Rated: ASR
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If you ask me why I like this book, I have no answer for you.

Do you ever have that happen? Where you read a book, and you know you should put it down and go wash a floor or something but for some reason you keep going?

And then you decide you kind of like it, even though you know that it's ridiculous that you like it? This book did that for me.

So if you pay money for it, and don't like it, please don't blame me, because I'm telling you upfront: I have no idea why I like it.

I read it over two nights, and I will never be able to explain the compulsion to finish it.

MC1? Mary sue. MC2? Handsome, devious, wizard. Bubblin' Cauldrin Sue, I call that one. Mary sue annoyed me. Bubblin' Cauldrin though, he had potential and some charm and I dig a wizard that admits when he's doing nothing but magic tricks. Who am I kidding? I dig wizards in general.

It's written all wonkadoodle flowery, and keeps starting sentences with 'Twas and a lot of the dialogue is stunted because of the author's obvious dedication and research of the time period. The problem is the dedication to that begins to override the already thin characters and then the dialogue becomes bemusing instead of engrossing.

I'm also giving this book a lot of leeway because it's not like it written last year. I'm sure people in the future will look at our 3rd-person limited POV novellas in 20 years and wonder why we didn't just say in 300 words what we said in 30,000. You know, times change.

Either way, it's a well-researched time-period romance with some cool elements, mary-sue with potential characters and a predictable yet still unresolved ending.

I liked it anyway. Go figure.
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