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Goddess of the Rose (Paperback)

by P. C. Cast (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group; Reprint edition (6 Jan 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0425227103
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425227107
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very Imaginative., 24 Aug 2007
This review is from: Goddess of the Rose (Berkley Sensation) (Mass Market Paperback)
A really good 'magic kingdom with dark twists' story.

The heroine is a complete nut-case. She Has Issues. She should have started talking to her psychiatrist friend long before she began having strange dreams. I suggest that she should have sought help when she first started cutting her hands and feeding her blood to her roses. That is not normal behaviour. Even for a rose enthusiast.

This is the first romance I've read with an undercurrent of man-hate in it. Also there are far far too many women in this story. Mothers, grandmothers, goddesses, handmaidens, actresses to name but a few. I felt sorry for the hero. Living in this Land of Women. Some of whom are quite vindictive. Plus. The heroine can't handle a guy who has different reading tastes from her but is more than happy to accept love from someone who is essentially a slave with a MD.

Getting to the crux. This is a novel about carnal love between a woman and a beast. The hero has cloven hooves and horns. Unfortunately the hero is really simplistically portrayed and doesn't really act out of free-will.

tbh. I never liked roses that much anyway. I could hate them after reading this story. Poor Mikki is a slave to the stupid plants. And, as becomes obvious as the novel progresses, she's also somewhat dumb. She must have seen the movie Jason and the Argonauts. Hecate is not a benign goddess. Plus. Those dogs which accompany her should have given Mikki a big clue as to the true nature of the Realm of the Roses, which actually turns out to be a realm of nightmares rather than nicey-wicey dreams. It is not acceptable for a thinking human being to give up her life for the sake of flowering vegetation. Mikki returns to the Realm of the Roses. But I would never have done so. The place is drenched in blood. Not just Mikki's but all the previous Empousa's too. Ugh. I couldn't really connect with Mikki. She's too earthy and, to repeat, is basically a man-hater.

What I liked about the novel is how Mikki's strange little behaviours are amplified in her fantasy world, but her other worries (job dissatisfaction, lack of a love-life) are completely solved. I thought the author handled Mikki's re-entry to the real world in a very clever, seamless manner. Mikki never spared a single thought for the pain her friends might have felt about her attack and consequent departure back to Roseland. Another characteristic of the mentally disturbed. The more I think about the plot of this novel the more it creeps me out.

But. A few years ago I might have loved this story.
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