Child of Venus

The beginning was a little slow for me, but probably only because I was reading book 3 without book 1 or 2. Some of the background was obviously meant to be calling back to people and events from those books. Once I got rolling with Mahala's story for real, I enjoyed it. Towards the end, we drop back from a very personal viewpoint to a more distant one, and it makes sense why, but I missed the feeling of connection. It was still alright, but it was less satisfying.

This was good. Not as engrossing as the first two books in Sargent’s Venus Trilogy (Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows) but still well worth reading. I liked how she completed the series with a number of unknowns that places you in the experience of the characters themselves. It doesn’t bring complete closure, but this is often the way with real life - we often have to continue living without the answers to all of our questions. Sargent’s point is not to leave readers hanging but rather to create a reading experience in which the reader is able to understand what the characters are experiencing. I liked this very much.

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