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Title: Awful writing about awful characters
Review: This was my first Mercedes Lackey fantasy novel and it will definitely be my last! From the first page, I found her writing style sorely lacking and I wanted to slap the heck out of Vanyel, who came across as a self-absorbed, rich-boy brat. The "turning to ice" device was poorly executed and extremely annoying...almost as hard to take as the homosexual storyline that had the characters professing their undying love for one another within 5-seconds flat. About the time Vanyel began whining about being jealous of his lover's "Companion", I found that I just couldn't take it any more and gave up on the book altogether. If there were any genuinely LIKABLE characters in the story, I certainly didn't meet them! It usually takes a lot to make me stop reading a book in mid-stream, but in this case I couldn't wait to relegate this tripe to where it belongs... the trash bin!
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