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Loading... Namesakeby Kate Stradling
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Anjeni Sigourna bears the name of a legendary goddess, but her resemblance to that honored figure ends there. Eighteen and jaded, she has cultivated sarcasm instead of the elusive magic everyone expects her to possess. Such mystic power lacks purpose in her modern world.But when an adverse encounter with the Eternity Gate lands her in an alien realm, magic marks the boundary between life and certain death. Anjeni alone holds the keys to saving an ancient people from a savage enemy. Her bitterness notwithstanding, she must now create a legend instead of living in its shadow. No library descriptions found. |
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It seemed to lack the humor of the other novels, and the protagonist starts out as pretty annoying. I don't like angry protagonists, which was a big turnoff; Stradling's other books that I have read have much more pleasant heroes. Usually her protagonists start off as clueless but winsome; this one is clueless and an annoying brat, and she didn't grow out of that fast enough for me to care. And the other characters somehow weren't interesting to me either.
The basic premise is that a woman who bears the name of an ancient goddess is suddenly thrust back into the time where the legends of the goddess come from. What starts to happen to her looks a lot like the legend, but the characters don't quite line up with the legend. The heroic one looks merely petty, the evil betrayer doesn't seem that way. Interesting idea, I guess, but since I didn't actually like *any* of the characters, it fell flat. (