[books] The Waterlord by Dawn Thompson
It's extremely easy to forget that it is extremely easy to foul up a good myth. I was hunting for fae again, and I stumbled upon the Waterlord. It's based off a Swedish myth of the Fossegrim a type of fae (I'm unsure of what) who is a guardian of a waterfall and once each generation, he crosses from the Otherworld to lure a mortal maiden so that he could get a child. (I guess it's another spin to the incubus stories where women try to pin the blame of sudden pregnancies to the unknown). But enough of that...
I think I skipped more than three fourths of the story. It was written in such a boring manner, that I simply wanted to know how the entire thing was going to end. (It must be the day of boring things for me, a boring book a boring movie... what next?)
Klaus was not interesting as a prince of the Fossegrim, and neither was Becca, who had run away from her father because he had promised her to some old wealthy man to pay off his gambling debts.
And I guess, there wasn't enough world building, since it was mostly done in 1815 England anway. The only worlds that were mentioned were the Otherworld (which lacked depth anyway) and the Sanctuary of the nymphs which also lacked description and heirarchies to be real.
The entire buisiness of trying to either propagate his line, become mortal or find a third choice was so tiring, especially since it was obvious that he was going to choose beciming mortal so he wouldn't lose his mortal love (which I actually fail to understand, Becca was so uninspiring. She ran away, she jumped to conclusions and she was a general nitwit) in the first place.
I really have to find more books. Better books. I have to stop to listening to some of the suggestions out there about fae. But given the lack of it, to explore it's difficult to find good fae books out of the urban fantasy genre.
I think I skipped more than three fourths of the story. It was written in such a boring manner, that I simply wanted to know how the entire thing was going to end. (It must be the day of boring things for me, a boring book a boring movie... what next?)
Klaus was not interesting as a prince of the Fossegrim, and neither was Becca, who had run away from her father because he had promised her to some old wealthy man to pay off his gambling debts.
And I guess, there wasn't enough world building, since it was mostly done in 1815 England anway. The only worlds that were mentioned were the Otherworld (which lacked depth anyway) and the Sanctuary of the nymphs which also lacked description and heirarchies to be real.
The entire buisiness of trying to either propagate his line, become mortal or find a third choice was so tiring, especially since it was obvious that he was going to choose beciming mortal so he wouldn't lose his mortal love (which I actually fail to understand, Becca was so uninspiring. She ran away, she jumped to conclusions and she was a general nitwit) in the first place.
I really have to find more books. Better books. I have to stop to listening to some of the suggestions out there about fae. But given the lack of it, to explore it's difficult to find good fae books out of the urban fantasy genre.