Sadly me mateys, it is time to abandon ship! I am so grumpy at this particular title. Ye see in me head, this was supposed to be like the historical novel the twentieth wife with the added element of magic. It wasn’t. I only made it to 217 out of 287. So close. I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I should have been warned by the insta-lust or the treatment of women like property or the odd-seeming mixture of Indian and Chinese and other Asian cultures. Or the non-explicit but present rape scenes involving concubines. But well there was an author’s note claiming that though the religion was based on Sumerian deities, the book is not claiming to be based on any real place or time frame. And I kept remembering good reviews for this one.

I wanted a good explanation for Kali’s magic skills and to watch her accomplish something with them. I didn’t get any of that by page 217 and was so sick of the Emperor’s blatant evil and with the stupid to-the-death fighting tournament of the wives and concubines. The rules didn’t really make sense. I wish I had read some of the negative reviews of me crew and not wasted the time. The only good thing is that I got this one from a local library and so didn’t waste money. Sigh.

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