![]() ![]() Hari could still see his sister’s eyes, broken with sorrow, her bleeding hands clutching her naked belly. The Magi might not want a child this time, but he was a man of deep, violent lusts. ![]() He would rather die than to see Dela endure the same fate as his sister. ![]() The horror of that possibility staggered him. If the Magi takes hold of Dela, he will just not kill her. Inside of slowly building up a scene, she prefers to spell out everything the characters are feeling without subtlety and – ironically, considering how Ms Liu loves her similes – grace. The first half of the book is really tough for me because Ms Liu seems to operate under the principle that there is no flowery phrase that she doesn’t like and doesn’t use. Just like how I often find Christine Feehan’s prose clumsy and laborious and her attempts at humor artificial, I find Marjorie M Liu’s reliance on short, incomplete sentences and telling as opposed to showing just as hard to get into. Marjorie M Liu’s debut Tiger Eye is compared to Christine Feehan‘s books and aside from the sequel-itis that inflict both authors when it comes to their books, I can see why the comparison crops up. ![]()
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