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The Lodestar Of Ys (2013)

by Amy Rae Durreson(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

M/M Romance Group @ goodreads

review 1: Difficult one to rate. There's a lot of world building here and quite an intense war going on and yet an almost total absence of the human element. There's enough there that I wanted to carry on but at the same time I skipped large chunks of text seeking the sparks of personality. Despite all the interesting world building, technologies and magics which deserve credit, the story itself is actually quite boring. And the threat being 'The Empire' meant I kept hearing the Star Wars theme music in my head!There's large time jumps to the point where the story felt disjointed and even with the years passing the characters didn't seem to develop. Sjurd is supposedly doing his duty but is churlishly rude and is a competent prince/solider who doesn't bother to read intineries ... moreor missives from his king? A character dies but it has no impact on the reader. Most people named remain faceless with a passing reference to them later by when you struggle to remember their pertinence.The story needs filler, little plot irrelevent moments to give humour and ground the characters, let us see who they are, what they like and stand for. They travel to thirty islands to stage wedding ceremonies which gives leeway for different traditions and a bit of fun but instead each place blends into the other, nothing and no-one stands out. I liked the change from the two being unimpressed with each other to becoming lovers but can't help putting it down to a sip of over-strong scrumpy and convenience, there's not enough shown to make me truely feel for them.Overall the effect is of a long space saga being boiled down to fit into novella format. A great outline and world vision but cutting out those bits that keep a reader engaged. The story isn't long enough to encompass the years it covers and the big looming threat of attack was dealt with so quick and easily I had to re-read the page to figure out it was actually over with!
review 2: I liked this, it was a great story with good characters but even though the relationship between them grew slowly the story felt hurried like it should've been a hundred or more pages longer. The end came fast and I would have wanted to know more about the Empire and maybe seen a greater battle. Ys was beatiful in my mind and would have wanted more of it, more of ships and more of the new islands. less

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