The Mirror Empire

Unfortunately this narrator manages to make every character sound like an affronted grandmother, except for Lilia, who sounds like a country bumpkin from the Charlotte\’s Web cartoon movie. I tried so hard to look past this but nearly every line felt delivered counter to the intentions of the author. The best narrators manage to imbue some sense of the character\’s own personality to the tone, and this one simply doesn\’t. Every character sounds exactly the same and it makes it an active burden to tell who is who. For the story itself, it\’s all very intriguing but takes so long to make sense through the cripplingly heavy exposition, lack of real character details, and the veritable onslaught of named characters. I think I\’ll like this book better on a second read-through. Probably in print.

Story so unexpected and strange. Too bad it’s wholly ruined by a narrator who should only read children’s books. Seriously, she reads with the over exaggerated emotion that you’d use to read to your 8 yr old, but the content is about pain and blood. I found it hard to take the words seriously.

After reading the wonderfully gritty Bel Dame Apocrypha (which was stunning) I expected a gritty fantasy The narrator had the wrong voices for this type of fantasy. She\’d probably be fine for a cosy mystery.

I got this on the recommendation of a friend and I am SO glad I did! It was confusing at first, but keep going & you\’ll catch on. Some of the most amazing world building I\’ve ever seen. This style reminds me of ASOIAF, but this author is more brutal than GRRM (in a good way!). I loved the array of perspectives– people of all (& multiple genders), disabled folks, & different cultures. Loved the unique characters. Five stars for sure.

Narrator was horrible. Interesting world building, too bad it was ruined by crap one dimensional characters, and a very weak plot. Very hard to get through, will not recommend, will not continue with the series.

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