Instead, it was a nonstop train ride to Boring City, running express to Bad Plot.īottom line: There’s more action and emotion and excitement in my lack of forgiving this book than there is in its whole storyline. This book was supposed to be darkness and violence and the void, and also feminism. This has the pacing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but it’s a STANDALONE. And the whole thing takes about eight pages. We spend so much time following these girls on a grating trek of boredom through poorly described fight after anticlimactic conflict, and when we finally get to the beastie, it’s the end of the book. Up to the last page, I was waiting for something to happen. The more details I consider, the more I feel I should’ve liked it: the mermaid creatures, the magic, the fighting, the badass women everywhere.Īnd yet, not for a single moment did I enjoy reading this book. I was personally attacked by the synopsis of this book, a retelling of Beowulf in which a group of reformed girl-assassins go off on a jaunt through a high fantasy world to kill a beastie and earn their glory. The Boneless Mercies went out of its way to ruin my life and hurt my feelings and I will not forgive it.
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