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QueenBoadicea
Sep 11, 2015QueenBoadicea rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I was of two minds about this book. While I liked the idea of its atypical heroine—unbeautiful, freakish, scary looking—with her unusual abilities and urge to help others, I was rather annoyed that it took her so long to uncover the truth behind the lies. When her mad scientist father began telling her stories about an evil wizard who had killed her and how he had brought her back to life, suspicion reared its ugly head. When I read further about how this so-called genius educated Kymera by reading her fairy tales, I was certain he was up to no good. Her amnesia and naïveté meant that she’d believe anything he told her and it was likely he was filling her head with a lot of garbage. So the revelation about his true nature and the reality of the situation wasn’t much of a surprise for me. What is left beyond this, however, is one gripping story, a moving tale of a young woman learning to cope with her abilities, the people around her and finding her place in the world. Kymera’s plight is a grim one but she rises above it with sheer grit and determination. In the end, she is not freakish at all but a lovely young heroine who capably combines tenderness with power.