Title: there's so much better fantasy out there, I wish I had spent my time reading them
Product review: Claidi is a maid to a mean princess in a prison-like castle surrounded by the Wastes. Her life changes when the lion-haired Nemain crashes his balloon into the castle. Told she is a princess, she rescues the prince and heads for adventures among the peoples of the Waste with Nemain. Smitten with Nemain (who doesn't treat her well), Claidi follows him blindly to his home, rejecting the love of a "thief" she meets in the Waste. Tanith Lee's writing style is convoluted and distracting. The story is boring and predictable, an endless and tedious journey with the ending clearly spelled out; the characters are flat and banal and hardly empathetic. Wish I had spent the time reading Gail Carson Levine, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, or Douglass Adams. Grade: D-
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