adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

In which a great deal happens, and the template for modern epic fantasy is clarified for the delight of readers.
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
adventurous funny reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first 100 pages were a slog, but as the story unfolded and books went by I found myself deeply missing the peace and tranquility of the first 100 pages. I prefer books that focus on one character's perspective and Tad Williams definitely baited me with most of the book being one POV. Enjoyed my read, but never got to finish the series.

it was too much lore, it was a quarter in the book before anything actually happened. i love lore, but it was forcefed through everything, it was not a good flow at all whenever lore came up that i ended up just skipping through most of any lore explanation.

& the songs, too many songs. half of the songs didn't have to be written out word for word, the entire book was way too long. it could have been cut by half.

yet i'm still probably going to read the next book & just hope it'll be better than this one.
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shayleene's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

I'll try giving it a go another time, for now I really can't seem to get interested into it.