Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 6/17/2010 + 636 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Lushly written, this detailed and fascinating novel utterly absorbed me, and was certainly unlike anything that I have ever read before! I really enjoyed it, though I can see how the writing style may not be well-suited to every reader. Some of the sentences were overly florid, though I do feel that style reflected the lavish world Trussoni created. The characters, though well-constructed and sympathetic, spoke in the same style as the prose, detracting credibility. I would imagine that this would be a hard audiobook to become enraptured in. There were a few minor editing errors, but my biggest complaint was the redundancy. I suppose if you didn't read this book in less than twenty-four hours the constant reminders, re-caps and refreshers would be helpful, but to this reader they were deeply annoying and only served to lengthen and unnecessarily draw the action out even further. Most of the story's threads were neatly tied, but I do hope that Trussoni writes a sequel - the detailed world she created could certainly be explored further, and there were definitely some lingering questions that still hung in the air after the last page was turned.

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