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A review by zephturner
The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke
3.0
The prose was nice, if a little sparser in some places than I prefer. And the plot began to come together nicely towards the middle of the book - in the beginning I was worried the author was planting Chekov's guns that wouldn't end up being fired, which irritates me. But most of the disparate plot elements introduced ended up playing key roles in the narrative.
The reason it's NOT five stars is that a) I'm honestly sick of girl/boy love stories where the boy's all mysterious and capable and has to protect the girl, it's heterosexist and I was hoping this book wouldn't involve a love triangle but it did, at least briefly, and I'm just sick of that stuff in fantasy aimed at teenaged girls, a genre I otherwise love; and b) the sailor/pirate vernacular was distracting to me. I got used to it towards the end of the book but it felt unnecessary and didn't really add to the plot.
Overall though it was quite a good book and very engaging; I would recommend it to a friend who wouldn't make fun of me for continuing to read YA novels as a fairly serious 17-year-old.
The reason it's NOT five stars is that a) I'm honestly sick of girl/boy love stories where the boy's all mysterious and capable and has to protect the girl, it's heterosexist and I was hoping this book wouldn't involve a love triangle but it did, at least briefly, and I'm just sick of that stuff in fantasy aimed at teenaged girls, a genre I otherwise love; and b) the sailor/pirate vernacular was distracting to me. I got used to it towards the end of the book but it felt unnecessary and didn't really add to the plot.
Overall though it was quite a good book and very engaging; I would recommend it to a friend who wouldn't make fun of me for continuing to read YA novels as a fairly serious 17-year-old.