Kim M. (Eucalia) reviewed on 6/28/2009 + 52 more book reviews

Maybe it was because I read this book entirely during downtime at work and therefore only in spurts over a month, but I really hated this book. It's told from the point of view of a teenage girl, but other than the fact that she says she's a girl, you'd never know it from the way she thinks. She has grown up in an orphanage with four other orphans, but you'd never know these people had known each other all their lives from the way they treat each other. They're all obsessed with sex. The main character in particular likes it rough and the boys she's grown up with like siblings are happy to oblige. Throughout the entire story she has no idea what's going on, and since it's being told from her point of view, the reader has no idea what's going on either. We are introduced to myriad characters who are mostly from Greek or Roman mythology and have multiple unrememberable names and only very minor roles, or maybe even no role at all other than to be introduced. I found it impossible to keep track of them all and what their powers were, where they were from, and what their interests in the main character were. There's also a rather interesting bit of physics here regarding multiple dimensions and whatnot, but this part is too briefly touched upon and since the narrator doesn't understand this either, it gets lost in the roiling whirlpool of minor characters. To top it off, this ends on a major cliffhanger. I feel like I struggled through this for nothing, but there's no way I'm going to search out the next two books in this series. This book was a nebula award finalist--it must've been slim pickings that year.

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