hardbackednooks 's review for:

Esrahaddon by Michael J. Sullivan

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a long-haul read, but it was worth it for the payoff. I do think certain things could have been cut to reduce the length of the book, but it was more about unnecessary extra details/inner monologues than it was about substance. The only major thing I took issue with was the prologue chapter; it gave us a huge spoiler that hung over my head through the entire book rather than acting as a teaser for what's to come. At a certain point, it became pretty obvious what was going to happen which made the rest of the journey to get there take forever.

All that being said, this was still a solid book and a good ending to the Rise and the Fall trilogy.