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markcdickson 's review for:
Arthas: Rise of the Lich King
by Christie Golden
“Was she right? No. No, she couldn’t be. Because if she was right, then he was about to become a mass murderer, and he knew that wasn’t who he was. He knew it.”
I enjoyed the first two thirds of this book that gradually showed Arthas’ descent from a well-intentioned but angry young man into a utilitarian slaughterer of potentially-infected children.
The final third of this book is pretty poorly written. It relies heavily on him repeating previous plot points to himself as motivation, which gets tiring quickly. On top of that, as soon as he gets the ultimate power with which to save his people at any cost, the evil within the sword takes over his personality and makes him unsympathetic and quite dull and passive.
Overall, I ended up enjoying this like I would enjoy a big action-packed fantasy movie, and am a little bit disappointed it didn’t live up to its premise of being a little bit more.
I enjoyed the first two thirds of this book that gradually showed Arthas’ descent from a well-intentioned but angry young man into a utilitarian slaughterer of potentially-infected children.
The final third of this book is pretty poorly written. It relies heavily on him repeating previous plot points to himself as motivation, which gets tiring quickly. On top of that, as soon as he gets the ultimate power with which to save his people at any cost, the evil within the sword takes over his personality and makes him unsympathetic and quite dull and passive.
Overall, I ended up enjoying this like I would enjoy a big action-packed fantasy movie, and am a little bit disappointed it didn’t live up to its premise of being a little bit more.