A review by lowbrowreaderofzerof_cks
Brighid's Quest by P.C. Cast
3.0
Readable but...
2.5 points
Easy read, author is reasonably decent at that craft at least. Some pacing issues, pretty slow beginning and end was wrapped up with almost indecent haste. Suffers of excess wordiness in places and could have easily been about third shorter. Characters sprout verse-form prayers in what seems every ten pages or so.
But what ultimately really annoyed me was that author has created somewhat matriarchal society and yet could not write it without many references to sexual violence and one very detailed attempted rape scene. Serious trigger warning here.
2.5 points
Easy read, author is reasonably decent at that craft at least. Some pacing issues, pretty slow beginning and end was wrapped up with almost indecent haste. Suffers of excess wordiness in places and could have easily been about third shorter. Characters sprout verse-form prayers in what seems every ten pages or so.
But what ultimately really annoyed me was that author has created somewhat matriarchal society and yet could not write it without many references to sexual violence and one very detailed attempted rape scene. Serious trigger warning here.