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Originally Posted by issybird
I just finished it and this is essentially my reaction with the same rating. The setting was inspired and inventive and I love that she didn’t clobber us with explanations; it was a fully realized world in which it was up to the reader to get up to speed. But ideally there would have been more of a plot arc. Two-thirds of the way through, not knowing about the novellas but obviously responding to the structure, I wondered when the story was going to go somewhere. It came across as a lot of setup without much of a payoff.
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I think her
Singing Hills Cycle novellas are excellent. It seems to be that is her gift, which is a rare one.
Having said that,
The Chosen and the Beautiful, which was published first but written after
Siren Queen was very strong as a novel and did not suffer the same issues.