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I'm going to stop. While the writing and the voice of the book is pretty good, I find the pace glacial. It's a big fat fantasy book which isn't for me. But I also think the book would genuinely be better if it started skipping ahead. I hope that Sykes will write a stand alone tale in the future. Hmmm wonder if he has some short fiction I could check out?
Good fun, but "orbs" and "ebon" got on my nerves a lot. Reads like a D&D campaign, which isn't a bad thing as long as that's what you're expecting. Will probably come back for the rest later.