A review by firesoulbird
The Bandit King by Lilith Saintcrow

1.0

My feelings have not changed since the first book. I'd hoped this one would be slightly better, since it's told from Tristan's POV instead of Vianne's. I was wrong. She stole his brain, and he spends most of the book rolling around in angst while more interesting things go on elsewhere.

In fact, my little opinion of Tristan plummeted. At the end of the first book, there's a "twist" where we find out that

he's the one who killed the king, not D'Orlaans. That's fine, as there were rumors that king raped him, among other things. That turns out to be not true. Tristan killed the king because we was going to marry Vianne off to someone who is Not Tristan. He becomes some ridiculously possessive asshole from this point on.

And then he turns into a 1970s romance novel "hero" and makes me so angry.

It's safe to say that I'll never read anything by Lilith Saintcrow ever again.