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Title: bla!!!
Review: I kept seeing this book everywhere I went, it was always in the shelves of recommended/popular books so I figured I'd give it a try. I was terribly disappointed. While the story itself is entertaining and the world and culture Carey creates is fairly imaginative and beautiful, the language and narration describing it was bland. I kept reading solely to find out how the story would turn out. The narration felt distant and I had a really hard time caring about the characters. And for being a story about a courtesan in a society that is so open about sex, never was there a mention of birth control. We could have had a little more realism with a contraceptive ritual that would have fit in perfectly. But no, it's just a sex laden fairy tale.
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