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I loved the mayor part of this book but when the setting was changed near the end I found that the story fell apart a bit, it lost it's focus. It's a pity when a good story is better than the ending. But it's still good enough. I loved the feminist approach, I loved the setting in medieval Alhambra, I loved the characters and there ups and downs. I just wish the ending would have been more kept together.
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Read for the 2022 Roundtable Fantasy Book Tournament. This could have been a much better book, but most everything about it was disappointing. It’s about a concubine and a mapmaker who run away from their sultan ‘cause the Spanish Inquisition is out to get ‘em. The mapmaker can draw maps and change reality with them; he can draw a tunnel and one will appear, which is a really cool idea, but it wasn’t used very much or very well. Then a lot of stuff happens, but the story and the writing and the
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I thought I'd like this story but it didn't work well for me.
I did enjoy the first part, before the fall of Grenada, and was enthused to read more. There was friendship, a touch of magic and a solid base for a story. But that momentum wasn't kept going and I soon began to lose interest.
I didn't like the ending either, which didn't help the overall feeling of disappointment.
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I did enjoy the first part, before the fall of Grenada, and was enthused to read more. There was friendship, a touch of magic and a solid base for a story. But that momentum wasn't kept going and I soon began to lose interest.
I didn't like the ending either, which didn't help the overall feeling of disappointment.
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The premise was excellent. The execution was good ... in places. But not, I think, overall. The ending was rushed, the explanation for Luz was unsatisfying (and the author let slip the opportunity to do something deeper and more difficult), and our mapmaker was criminally underexplored. Glad I read it, willing to recommend it to people who want a quick, light, engaging, but not particularly well executed, but definitely not something to rave about.
Apr 23, 2022
Lori
rated it
it was ok
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Great thesis, great plot (until the end where it meanders a bit), great characters in theory, but it never caught me.
2 stars, ok if you like the genre
2 stars, ok if you like the genre
Nov 28, 2018
Viv JM
marked it as to-read
Dec 25, 2018
Nadine in California
marked it as to-read
Mar 03, 2019
Kai Coates
marked it as to-read
Jan 12, 2022
Susan
marked it as to-read
