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To start off - I really enjoyed the first book. I found the characters to be flawed but genuine, and the story intriguing. That said, I was disappointed with the second book. While I can see how Douglass wants to create a flawed anti-hero type of protagonist - Axis' disregard and blatant disrespect of the female characters in this novel is astounding. I was proud of Faraday for what she did regarding Axis (in some ways) at the end of the novel, and appalled at Azhure's thoughts and actions in re
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This book would have been much better if the author stopped making every woman a victim of Axis' viles. Douglass obviously has issues with men because there's no greater jerk than Axis and there are no greater victims than poor Azhure and Faraday *rolls eyes* Axis is a cruel chauvinist and Azhure and Faraday basically walk on water and can't do anything wrong. I'm a woman too but this is so one-sided that it's ridiculous! And the way everybody and their uncle falls in love with Azhure - ludicrou
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Aug 02, 2009
Erin
marked it as to-read
Apr 15, 2010
Gaijinmama
marked it as to-read
