Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis
Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis
My rating: 6/10
Would I reread it: Probably not
I expected so much more from this book and it was just so......confusing. I'm wondering what made Fairyloot include it in a box because it didn't really stand out to me at all. The world was indeed interesting but we don't get a whole lot of information on it and so we're left to guess a lot. The characters were just okay.
This was written from four points of view, FOUR, and I don't know what two of them really brought to the table. Khosa and Vincent's POVs were fine, but there was no point to the other two. The third POV was Dara the Indiri (an endangered speckled human-like race who have all the memories of their ancestors, of which Dara and Donil are the last) who was also somewhat pointless to the book because the very little she accomplished could have been done instead by her brother Donil or nobody at all. The fourth POV was only really useful in telling us that enemy country Pietra was silently marching on Stille from the beach to claim the castle and it as its own. But then that too didn't matter because their whole army minus the leader (whose POV we had) was washed away in a miniature tsunami.
I don't really have anything to say about the love square, except why? Why did Dara love Vincent who loved her back but loved Khosa more who also loved Vincent but was more attracted to Donil who bedded every woman he could but also really liked Khosa so he wouldn't bed her? Confusing right?
I think it's also important to mention that this realm isn't really all that great because they treat women so badly. Vincent's mother was the daughter to the king and yet she couldn't hold the throne. She had to stupidly marry a horrible man who treated everyone, his own son included horribly. He then put a fucking reward on RAPING and IMPREGNATING Khosa, like wtf?! And this book mentions this over and over but not really saying that rape is bad because it just keeps saying that's what Khosa is meant for, to breed. Yes, it uses the word breed for her over and over, as if she were a horse being sacrificed and not a girl. One of the worst parts is that a scribe who Khosa and her friends trusted completely to help her escape the castle decides the reward it big enough he should rape her instead, a complete flip of his character.
There was just so much build up between the useless Pietran Lithos' POV preparing for war on Stille and Khosa trying to escape/not be raped and it was all resolved in a rushed ending. There was no big battle because the wave simply washed away the Pietran army. Vincent's solution to making Khosa untouchable (haha, since she hates being touched) was to marry her in a rushed wedding that took about two sentences to describe. Oh yeah, and she's still attracted to Donil. Well looks like book two will be fun with more love square drama.
My rating: 6/10
Would I reread it: Probably not
I expected so much more from this book and it was just so......confusing. I'm wondering what made Fairyloot include it in a box because it didn't really stand out to me at all. The world was indeed interesting but we don't get a whole lot of information on it and so we're left to guess a lot. The characters were just okay.
This was written from four points of view, FOUR, and I don't know what two of them really brought to the table. Khosa and Vincent's POVs were fine, but there was no point to the other two. The third POV was Dara the Indiri (an endangered speckled human-like race who have all the memories of their ancestors, of which Dara and Donil are the last) who was also somewhat pointless to the book because the very little she accomplished could have been done instead by her brother Donil or nobody at all. The fourth POV was only really useful in telling us that enemy country Pietra was silently marching on Stille from the beach to claim the castle and it as its own. But then that too didn't matter because their whole army minus the leader (whose POV we had) was washed away in a miniature tsunami.
I don't really have anything to say about the love square, except why? Why did Dara love Vincent who loved her back but loved Khosa more who also loved Vincent but was more attracted to Donil who bedded every woman he could but also really liked Khosa so he wouldn't bed her? Confusing right?
I think it's also important to mention that this realm isn't really all that great because they treat women so badly. Vincent's mother was the daughter to the king and yet she couldn't hold the throne. She had to stupidly marry a horrible man who treated everyone, his own son included horribly. He then put a fucking reward on RAPING and IMPREGNATING Khosa, like wtf?! And this book mentions this over and over but not really saying that rape is bad because it just keeps saying that's what Khosa is meant for, to breed. Yes, it uses the word breed for her over and over, as if she were a horse being sacrificed and not a girl. One of the worst parts is that a scribe who Khosa and her friends trusted completely to help her escape the castle decides the reward it big enough he should rape her instead, a complete flip of his character.
There was just so much build up between the useless Pietran Lithos' POV preparing for war on Stille and Khosa trying to escape/not be raped and it was all resolved in a rushed ending. There was no big battle because the wave simply washed away the Pietran army. Vincent's solution to making Khosa untouchable (haha, since she hates being touched) was to marry her in a rushed wedding that took about two sentences to describe. Oh yeah, and she's still attracted to Donil. Well looks like book two will be fun with more love square drama.
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