Damsel is a tale of darkness, darkness and darkness. Ama is a damsel. One in a long line of women 'rescued' by the current prince from a great fire-breathing dragon. Having no memory, and essentially having no past, she has no real choice but to stay with her 'hero' and marry him, becoming his Queen. But something is just not right. Abuse after abuse, horrifying experiences are thrown at Ama, making her question the honesty of her hero and the wisdom is trusting him. Besides this there is not much else to say about the novel. It was just a sad, miserable story with little character development.Depressing, rapey, disturbing and yet somehow still boring, Damsel was not a good read. I was grossed out 99% of the time because of all the rapey connotations, and the outright rape, as well as just bored 1%, wanting the story to stop. This novel was a sadness-extravaganza , where essentially everything was bad and horrible. Nothing good happens to the main character and that is supposed to be interpreted as deep. It isn't. Its just brutal to read. And to top it off, the plot was unorganized and the characters were flat, especially the secondary characters. I do not recommend Damsel and give it the rating of ONE AND A HALF STARS OUT OF FIVE!!!
*Advanced Readers Copy Review*
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