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adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
The world building is excellent; the cast of characters, fully realized. Unfortunately, the protagonist is insufferable. He's a narcissistic, preening, barely competent, myopic, desperate, charming trashheap of a man who pulls everyone around him into a vortex of his idiocy and carelessly pursued crusades. He constantly proclaims his deep love for others all while only loving them exactly as is convenient for him and his image of himself, to their detriment.
Read it if you have the patience for a main character whom you'd throttle to death in real life. In all other cases, avoid it like the plague. It's good work, and I will well upon the author, but it wasn't worth what the stress and rage likely did to my physical health.
Other reviewers note plotholes, and I also chafed against those and a few anachronisms, but honestly by the time they happened I was so annoyed I was rushing through the book to just get it over with, so they captured my attention only long enough to leave an annotation commenting on them. I don't know if they'll shake you more if you're less frustrated than I was by then.
Read it if you have the patience for a main character whom you'd throttle to death in real life. In all other cases, avoid it like the plague. It's good work, and I will well upon the author, but it wasn't worth what the stress and rage likely did to my physical health.
Other reviewers note plotholes, and I also chafed against those and a few anachronisms, but honestly by the time they happened I was so annoyed I was rushing through the book to just get it over with, so they captured my attention only long enough to leave an annotation commenting on them. I don't know if they'll shake you more if you're less frustrated than I was by then.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Torture
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia
Minor: War
Lots of catholicism if that bothers you. The mc is possibly anti abortion but his idiocy is held in relief against more rational characters who have no issue with it.
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