A review by onceuponasarah
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff

2.0

This was an okay book, but I had no desire to read the other books in the series. The characters felt flat and I did not like them much. Maybe it's because I'm comparing it too much to Brigg's Mercy Thompson series, but this just never went anywhere. It did have funny parts, I'll grant that it was witty and it had a distinct writing style. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is that I never understood the plot or the characters fully because it was never explained. There were no rules for the world, and no explanation of exactly what the main characters are. It got so frustrating, because the 'surprises' (about choosing a Gale woman for example) weren't surprises, they just made the story confusing and upsetting for me. I think this could have been a lot better with a development (or even exposition) of the world, so that I was interested in the story and not trying to figure out just who or what all these things were. Sorry for the rant. Others liked this, but I wouldn't recommend it.