The Cup of the World

It's a bit like reading Faust, but without the intellectual satisfaction or bragging rights. The characters were very flat. Very little action. Not so much a good read here. I'm absolutely aghast, actually, by how little intensity is in the writing. Sometimes, I found myself reading paragraphs twice......more

Hmmm...you know, I liked the earnesty in which the author propelled this story along. He had an idea and a vision for it, and I wanted to go along and see where it ended. That's the good part. The bad? It feels like I'm reading the condensed version of what the author had in mind here. There's some d......more

I was enjoying the start of this quite a lot. The writing style is good, and the characters engaging. A lot of people seem to be getting fed up with Phaedra and her decision to run off with a guy who appears in her dreams after refusing so many suitors, but I think people forget she's a sheltered, n......more

Phaedra, only child of the Warden of Trant, refuses all suitors, both for fear of dying in childbirth and for love of a man she has met only in dreams. When the king's son courts her, her dream-lover comes to take her away, and proves to be the mysterious and ill-famed lord of the province across th......more