Ein feministisches Fantasy Buch⚔️ Vorab sollte man wissen, dass die Autorin eine britische Feministin ist. In dem Buch geht es um die siebzehnjährige Cass. Diese ist ein Freigeist und möchte nicht wie ihre Schwester mit dem nächstbesten Mann verheiratet werden. Als ihr eines Tage die Ritterin Siegried über den Weg läuft und das Angebot macht, mit ihr zu kommen, nimmt sie dies spontan an und lernt die Schwesternschaft der Seidenritter kennen. Dort lernt sie das Kämpfen und Reiten. Die Schwesternschaft möchte das durch Männer entstandene Unrecht wiedergutzumachen. Dabei entdeckt sie, dass sie eine besondere Macht besitzt. Um die Schwesternschaft geheim zu halten, ist den Frauen jedes Mittel recht. Sei es das Schwert und ihre Talente im Kampf oder das Bezirzen der Männer … den für diese männerdominierende Zeit leben unabhängige Frauen nur im Geheimen und äußerst gefährlich. Man merkt dem Buch deutlich die feministische Haltung der Autorin an. Das fand ich nich störend. Jedoch war die Handlung sehr langatmig und es konnte keine richtige Spannung aufgebaut werden. Ich habe es leider schließlich abgebrochen. Es war mir zu langatmig. Einfach nicht meins.

I'll be honest. This book should have been a dnf. It lost me about halfway through, felt absolutely aimless, and it speaks volumes that I only skimmed through the last 100 pages. 😅 All throughout the book, I was wondering where on earth the story was going - and with only 400 pages to tell the story, that's not a good sign. But let me start from the beginning: I hate writing bad reviews because I know the soul and work of an author live in every book. And this one sounded so promising! Arthurian Knights, but make it feminist? I was intrigued. Sadly, it did not deliver. Not only did I entirely miss the fantasyplot (it was a very soft magic subplot which did not contribute to the story as much as it should have in my opinion) but I also got annoyed at the female rage - to me it was just a tad too much of it. Yes, I can imagine how bad it was for many women back in the medieval ages. Yes, I can understand the rage, and I love the premise of women sticking together to fight injustice. But this was just so overdone. It was kinda like all men were simply hated on for just being men. This book felt like a handbook on "how to become a man hating female knight" because for much of the story, all that happened was some sword fighting and some tournaments. The story was just all over the place, rippled along, and was missing a common thread, and it kind of bored me. Also, we did not get a lot of magic or glitter, and i wanted magic so badly! 😅 Only the ending kind of reminded me of the arthurian legend, but by that, the book had entirely lost me. The moral issues Cass (our protagonist was facing) didn't really catch my attention, and there was an entirely misplaced love story. I don't know if I have anything nice to say other than that the idea could have been fun and the writing was not that bad. 🫣 I wanted to love this so much but will not continue on in book two and can not advise reading this book.