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I wanted to like this so badly, but this was an absolute slog of 700+ pages in which we mostly just get endless whining from Hadrian who, in my opinion, has absolutely no endearing qualities. I love unlikeable protagonists, but I still need to be able to get behind them being the protagonist for one reason or another. Hadrian is way too dull and boring and ugh! All he does is whine and get pushed from one thing to another and then whine some more. I think the main problem for me is that ultimately I just didn’t care about his goals or desires, and apparently that is important to me when determining whether I like a character or not.

This took me forever to get through because I simply didn’t ever want to read it. I’m vaguely interested in what ends up happening overall with the war and stuff but I don’t think I’m interested enough to continue tbh :/

jess_is_reading_in_abundance's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

taplowman's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

winston53's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I don’t know if I’ll continue this series, interesting ideas but just didn’t grab me.

sandnort's review against another edition

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1.0

I really wanted to like this book, but I've just kinda snapped. Got to the part where the doctor was caught sleeping with a castle sex slave and I'm just done. Everyone in this book sucks The MC isn't allowed to have a pleasant relationship with anyone in this story. They either die betray him or in the case of the doctor act high and mighty only to take advantage of sex slaves. I'm sure the author had a plan for all this but this parade of misery is too long.

The story really needed an edit, every mini arc goes on to long and I just want them to be over along with the book. I got to say I'm heart broken over this one because there was a little good in this one but I wont be finishing it.

ktchev's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

3.0

valentin87's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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