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tachyondecay's review
It pains me, because everyone is so hyped about Kameron Hurley, and I want to be hyped too. Alas, this first foray into her writing was not a successful venture. Despite spending exactly a week with this book, I am just barely halfway through. It was this realization that made me decide to cut my losses. I am not going to finish The Mirror Empire.
Principally, I just donât care about any of the main characters and their fate. I genuinely do not care to find out how this book ends.
That isnât just a problem with the characterization (which is poor) but also the plot, which is stretched thin. For example, Liliaâs entire plot in this first half of the book is âgo back and forth between two travel companions, both of whom she hates, and ending up exactly nowhere.â Zezili is a fearsome general who spends her time whinging that her empress is going to get everyone killed, but after half a novel, she still hasnât done anything about it. Likewise with Ahkio or Rohâthese characters are moving slower than molasses.
I was in a reading slump earlier, one which Felix Ever After rescued me from. This book has threatened to send me spiralling back into the slump. Sigh.
Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Racism, Cannibalism, and Genocide
Moderate: Sexual assault
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