The Sorcery Code

DNF - PG 159 - 45%

Up until the last chapter I read (21) I was feeling boredom and disdain. If there was a plot it was so well buried I couldn't see it. I didn't find any of the characters interesting or likable. They were all obsessed with sex and/or romance - hardly existing outside of how they relate to others of the opposite gender. There were some major info-dumps that made my eyes glaze over. However I was able to overlook all that, until chapter 21.

In it we have the former lover of our main guy discover that he has created artificial life. He has created an ‘it'. A ‘monster'. A creature that could be ‘capable of destroying earth and everyone on it'. I hate these type of bigoted ‘if it's not human it's evil' people in my fantasy stories. Besides, the whole reason they're former lovers has got to be so stupid.

And I did not like anything about this book enough to subject myself to how many things I disliked.

Judging by a couple reviews I read, it sounds like it gets worse - in that the bigot is actually right when our ‘Mary' starts doing things she shouldn't. Grand.