false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175199913m/492069.jpg 492069 2 Mélusine—a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption. It is here that wizard Felix Harrowgate and cat-burglar Mildmay the Fox will find their destinies intertwined in a world of sensuality and savagery. 2484 27 6 2006 Melusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, Book 1) total:451|5:147|4:150|3:107|2:28|1:19| 451 1731 746 102 3 4 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 10:56:06 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 11:13:24 -0700 2007
I don't just dislike Felix because he's an annoying character -- though he is SO annoying; at several points when I was reading the book I was just squirming around squeak...more...]]> 1 4 false false Tue Jun 26 18:44:21 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 19:06:59 -0700 2007
I'm struggling to keep interested in this book. This is a poorly-explained world, where magical and social elements are introduced in ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 23:32:16 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 11:15:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 17:51:56 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 18:49:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 02:52:21 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 17 16:40:03 -0700 2008
As with any book that has constantly alternating points of view, I found it distracting at first but eventually I was able to settle into it. (It's a personal preference. It ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Sep 19 17:54:02 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 15:41:38 -0700 2007
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It felt like an awful lot of build-up for very little payoff, and I know that's because the story isn't finished, ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 25 16:39:23 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 11 11:34:37 -0700 2008
The fact that I just finished this and can't remember what Monette called her world is one of the problems I had ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 05:34:03 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 05:34:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 19:12:33 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 21:01:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 12:46:01 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 12:58:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:29:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:43:40 -0700 2009 Melusine. Appealing epic-fantasy setting; dueling magicians; a labyrinthine castle - and about half the major characters are gay, and it's not a big deal. All good ingredients. The plot's first main conflict - the brutal assault upon and captivity of Felix, a main char...more...]]> 3 1 false true Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 09:54:25 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 06 23:41:31 -0800 2009
I think the two-narrator structure was the book's weak point. It seems like Monette felt obligated to keep going back...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 02:20:52 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 03:35:03 -0700 2009
I was intrigued by what Hirondelle and Emmaco said about this/The Virtu, and knew that I was likely to feel frustrated by the fascinating but insufficiently presented world's magic system(s), history and politics. Which I did!

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Monette disrupts my intense hatred with her interesting narrators and lovely world.

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Felix annoyed me more often than not, though even he picke...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=492069