Nick

unbelievably cruel

Revisado: 03-21-24

*spoilers*
First off I did not like the way that the author likes to torment the reader. It feels like the author gets some kind of sick thrill out of torturing people. There are large sections of this story that were painful to get through.
But the absolute worst is having the characters make their plans and then go about them without giving the reader any clue of what was happening. I understand some level of deception and wanting to build tension and keep secrets, but this degree of it felt lazy, cruel, and ultimately false and unbelievable.
The ending being the most egregious example of this.
We are supposed to believe that was all part of their plan. that they really thought that in order to get to the sovereign that was the best way to do it. I do not believe it for a single moment. That was not a plan it was a suicidal hail Mary that had no chance of working. That we are supposed to believe any of that was in any way possible is utter nonsense. I nearly stopped reading this trainwreck when the "betrayal" happens. The fact that the inner monologue of darro is written in a deceptive manner to make you think it was unplanned is just unnecessary and felt like the author wanted us to just suffer. The last hour of this book was agonizing. I was just angry and finished it mostly from spite more than anything else. The big reveal at the end was incredibly hollow, it just felt impossible and incredibly contrived. The way this book ended has completely ruined this series for me and I will not be reading any further.

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Revisado: 12-17-15

I bought this book by mistake I did not realize it was the unabridged version

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