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before anything i apologise for my grammar, as english is not my first language.
i was going to rate this book 3.5/4.0 until i reached the end. and that is because it just frustrated me so much, i was splitting hair, but now i guess this must be on purpose (and its genius!) because at the end i realised how much of my feelings were heden's feelings all along. thinking about this last chapter still gets my throat all tight.
this is a heavy and slow book, but it is at the same time quite refreshing for the fantasy genre in my opinion. i enjoyed the humor when it was there. i think heden was an excelent character and i loved how we only get hints of his past with no over exposition, it left me wanting to know more about him. i also liked his relationship with vanora, as i love found family storylines.
the fighting scenes were pretty epic, and we can clearly see the tabletop influence on those, which i don't consider a down side at all - i enjoyed them a lot.
i like the worldbuilding, especially because matt doesn't just throw a buch of information on me and expects me to keep track of it - it is done much like heden's backstory: in small pieces, people comment on what they should comment and dont waste time explaining things that would be obvious or usual for them the same way i wouldnt explain someone exactly what a cat is, which made the world feel very authentic and alive in my opinion.
i looking very much foward to reading thief, and i can say that priest is now one of my favorite fantasy stories and i will come back to it quite often.
i was going to rate this book 3.5/4.0 until i reached the end. and that is because it just frustrated me so much, i was splitting hair, but now i guess this must be on purpose (and its genius!) because at the end i realised how much of my feelings were heden's feelings all along. thinking about this last chapter still gets my throat all tight.
this is a heavy and slow book, but it is at the same time quite refreshing for the fantasy genre in my opinion. i enjoyed the humor when it was there. i think heden was an excelent character and i loved how we only get hints of his past with no over exposition, it left me wanting to know more about him. i also liked his relationship with vanora, as i love found family storylines.
the fighting scenes were pretty epic, and we can clearly see the tabletop influence on those, which i don't consider a down side at all - i enjoyed them a lot.
i like the worldbuilding, especially because matt doesn't just throw a buch of information on me and expects me to keep track of it - it is done much like heden's backstory: in small pieces, people comment on what they should comment and dont waste time explaining things that would be obvious or usual for them the same way i wouldnt explain someone exactly what a cat is, which made the world feel very authentic and alive in my opinion.
i looking very much foward to reading thief, and i can say that priest is now one of my favorite fantasy stories and i will come back to it quite often.