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A Lenda Do Cisne (2010)

by Jules Watson(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bertrand Editora

review 1: Full disclosure: I made it to page 300 out of 512 long, meandering, repetitive pages before finally giving up. Life is to short to read bad books, and sadly, this is one of those for me. It had all the right elements for me- fairy tale re-telling. Celtic lore. But Deirdre was boring and flat and apparently a goddess in the flesh, for no man can resist her and she can do no wrong, not to mention some pretty hefty magic powers. This made for an extremely boring and repetitive book, and I couldn't handle the unending descriptions of her "nipples straining against her shirt" and "the cleft between her legs" that renders all men into blathering dotes-even kings and legendary warriors. Even her ankle has the power to seduce and cause rampant obsession. Its cool that she h... moreas nothing to talk about, ever, cause hey! Her skin glows in the moonlight. Conor, the "bad guy", was the most interesting character to me because he had real, tangible issues- but he was still sadly under-developed and certainly not enough to make this looooong story worth reading. I'm not one to shy away from a long book but this was just painful. Maybe it could have been a 100 page romance novella, and it would've been ok. Maybe. I was hoping this would compare to Julliette Mariller who has written some lovely books on the same topics, but no dice.
review 2: I was so excited to read this book but was very disappointed. It was rather dull and more historical fiction than fantasy (I hate historical fiction!). There was no richness to the language or depth to the characters to draw me in. The men were stubborn and honor-bound. The girl was wild with unnatural druid skills that I guess were supposed to make her mysterious and fey. Instead I found her to be unreliable as a character. I never knew if she would react sensibly to something or not. The love story was characterized by sexual tension taken right out of a bad romance novel. This is supposed to be an epic story of a love that takes down a mighty king! At least make the sex scenes worthy of that type of love! Overall, I found the politics dull, the characters pretty stock and the romance underwhelming. less

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