This'll be a short review since I have to head off to work soon but WOW!
An amazing tale,full of interest characters and a rich world. Mystery, drama, secrets, fighting and some conspiracy thrown in :)
The battle scenes and violence were done well, violent and bloody but more character driven than gore-driven (and did not make me want to puke), each one served a purpose to what was happening in the narrative each time. I hate when gore is done just for gore's sake, glad to see this stayed away from that :).
There are quite a few characters in play, a couple times I had to stop and think who was who but once I got used to everyone and got further along in the story I had no trouble keeping everyone straight.
Everyone is fleshed out well, they feel like real people instead of just pieces on the pages... even the villains I was invested in. Arch Lector Sult is a slippery bastard, but is he the ultimate bad guy?
There any many layers to this story, and each one gets peeled back a bit as the story goes on.. only to find more underneath. We get some answers but never enough for the full complete picture but teases of a sort to keep us invested in what is going on and to give us some insight.
It is a steady-paced novel, not a whole lot happens but also at the same time it does... make sense?
Jezal, I went back and forth between loving him and wanting to push him into the mud. I only hope he's up for the journey that lays ahead.
Ferro, is fascinating... I still don't like her a whole lot but Bayaz seems to think she has value so I guess we'll see.
Bayaz, also a slippery bastard.. not quite the same as Sult but he also has secrets of his own. He wears many masks and sometimes your not quite sure if you can trust him.
Logen was my favorite, he's a survivor with quite a reputation behind but he's also weary of it at the same time. I don't think it'll ever really leave him.
The last part of the novel is intense and the ending is ominous in its own way, leaving you wondering how this is all gonna come together and what the cost will be.
Highly recommend, well worth time and money :)
excuse any typos for the moment haha *waves* happy reading!
An amazing tale,full of interest characters and a rich world. Mystery, drama, secrets, fighting and some conspiracy thrown in :)
The battle scenes and violence were done well, violent and bloody but more character driven than gore-driven (and did not make me want to puke), each one served a purpose to what was happening in the narrative each time. I hate when gore is done just for gore's sake, glad to see this stayed away from that :).
There are quite a few characters in play, a couple times I had to stop and think who was who but once I got used to everyone and got further along in the story I had no trouble keeping everyone straight.
Everyone is fleshed out well, they feel like real people instead of just pieces on the pages... even the villains I was invested in. Arch Lector Sult is a slippery bastard, but is he the ultimate bad guy?
There any many layers to this story, and each one gets peeled back a bit as the story goes on.. only to find more underneath. We get some answers but never enough for the full complete picture but teases of a sort to keep us invested in what is going on and to give us some insight.
It is a steady-paced novel, not a whole lot happens but also at the same time it does... make sense?
Jezal, I went back and forth between loving him and wanting to push him into the mud. I only hope he's up for the journey that lays ahead.
Ferro, is fascinating... I still don't like her a whole lot but Bayaz seems to think she has value so I guess we'll see.
Bayaz, also a slippery bastard.. not quite the same as Sult but he also has secrets of his own. He wears many masks and sometimes your not quite sure if you can trust him.
Logen was my favorite, he's a survivor with quite a reputation behind but he's also weary of it at the same time. I don't think it'll ever really leave him.
The last part of the novel is intense and the ending is ominous in its own way, leaving you wondering how this is all gonna come together and what the cost will be.
Highly recommend, well worth time and money :)
excuse any typos for the moment haha *waves* happy reading!
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