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A review by samgalanor
The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke
4.0
Pirates and Assassin’s sounds like an awesome book.
It is sadly not that epic as it sounds.
The writing style is ok. Not great and not terrible bad. Mixed with the slang the female main character Ananna speaks it becomes more sloppy, even through it is a stylistic device to show that she is not high educated. But she is the only one who speaks like this, even her parents speak “normal”. So this stylistic divide ends up being just unnecessary.
Meanwhile the story is great and full of unpredictable twist and turns. If you think they’ll lift the curse at the end of this book and have their happy end, you’ll be surprised. Furthermore the characters are simpathic and likeable, from the very beginning and the world building is great for a duology.
The love story is evolving slovenly and believable from both sides, although the book is written in first person perspective.
There is a certain double morality in the books. Everyone is disgusted by Najij because he is an assassin. But every sailor or pirate kills more people in this book than he does. Even Ananna actually kills and no one comments on that, but beware the evil murderous assassin.
A funny, adventures and fast read.
It is sadly not that epic as it sounds.
The writing style is ok. Not great and not terrible bad. Mixed with the slang the female main character Ananna speaks it becomes more sloppy, even through it is a stylistic device to show that she is not high educated. But she is the only one who speaks like this, even her parents speak “normal”. So this stylistic divide ends up being just unnecessary.
Meanwhile the story is great and full of unpredictable twist and turns. If you think they’ll lift the curse at the end of this book and have their happy end, you’ll be surprised. Furthermore the characters are simpathic and likeable, from the very beginning and the world building is great for a duology.
The love story is evolving slovenly and believable from both sides, although the book is written in first person perspective.
There is a certain double morality in the books. Everyone is disgusted by Najij because he is an assassin. But every sailor or pirate kills more people in this book than he does. Even Ananna actually kills and no one comments on that, but beware the evil murderous assassin.
A funny, adventures and fast read.