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A review by ciuli
Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Look... If the authiur had skipped the first 3/4 of the book and I yk wrote the last 100 pages I wouls have probably enjoyed it more.
The pace of this book was so slooooooow. It took me so long to push through it that I have genuinely forgotten what happened in the first half of the book, I'm not even kidding.
I do understand that the second book in a trilogy is meant to set the story for the final, but I feel like this one could have been cut in half and could have been a duology.
Now, I definitely go have a love/hate relationship with this saga. On the one hand I am captured by the characters and their story, and I do find that even the secondary characters are well described, they have layers and each one manages to have its own voice even if they appear only for a few pages and that's something I really like and enjoy. In the other hand though, I just cannot gloss over the way that r*pe IS Just thrown left and right and talked about as something normal. I do understand that in this universe, this is the way it is, there are slave there is r*pe and this is the way things are dealt with. But I genuinely believe that sometimes it's only be used as a mean for the book to be trasgressive and "not like the others" kinda feel, and not because it's actually useful for the plot or for the world development.
The ending left us on a cliffhanger, even though I feel it was quite predictable that sooner rather than later the secret would come our as they were literally on the border with Akielos, I'm curious to see how Laurent will react when he'll finds out the truth and genuinely curious about how he's not going to kill Damen on sight as soon as he sees him again lol
The pace of this book was so slooooooow. It took me so long to push through it that I have genuinely forgotten what happened in the first half of the book, I'm not even kidding.
I do understand that the second book in a trilogy is meant to set the story for the final, but I feel like this one could have been cut in half and could have been a duology.
Now, I definitely go have a love/hate relationship with this saga. On the one hand I am captured by the characters and their story, and I do find that even the secondary characters are well described, they have layers and each one manages to have its own voice even if they appear only for a few pages and that's something I really like and enjoy. In the other hand though, I just cannot gloss over the way that r*pe IS Just thrown left and right and talked about as something normal. I do understand that in this universe, this is the way it is, there are slave there is r*pe and this is the way things are dealt with. But I genuinely believe that sometimes it's only be used as a mean for the book to be trasgressive and "not like the others" kinda feel, and not because it's actually useful for the plot or for the world development.
The ending left us on a cliffhanger, even though I feel it was quite predictable that sooner rather than later the secret would come our as they were literally on the border with Akielos, I'm curious to see how Laurent will react when he'll finds out the truth and genuinely curious about how he's not going to kill Damen on sight as soon as he sees him again lol
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment