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A review by evafantasy
The Hand of the Sun King by J.T. Greathouse
3.0
⭐⭐⭐
Honestly lile the beginning, the prose is quite good and I was curious to see where this was going. The plot as a whole was quite good too.
However, as the story went on I just couldn't connect with the main character. This guy is so selfish, gets people killed because of his ambition and somehow we're supposed to root for him ? Like all he wants is magic. He's always like 'oh no, I didn't get enough magic' then messes up some people's lives, fails again and keeps going. And for someone who's supposed to be quite smart, he's so stupid it's incredible. The change from his smartness at the beginning to the way he just looses his wits as the story keeps going had me perplexed. Foolish decisions upon foolish decisions. I guess I shouldn't be surprised as it's his name after all.
The romance we got towards the middle end was soooo tasteless omg it made me roll my eyes a few times. The only use this female character had was to advance MC's powers and to defend him against other people rightfully not trusting him.
So it was quite well written, but as a character reader first, not for me.
Honestly lile the beginning, the prose is quite good and I was curious to see where this was going. The plot as a whole was quite good too.
However, as the story went on I just couldn't connect with the main character. This guy is so selfish, gets people killed because of his ambition and somehow we're supposed to root for him ? Like all he wants is magic. He's always like 'oh no, I didn't get enough magic' then messes up some people's lives, fails again and keeps going. And for someone who's supposed to be quite smart, he's so stupid it's incredible. The change from his smartness at the beginning to the way he just looses his wits as the story keeps going had me perplexed. Foolish decisions upon foolish decisions. I guess I shouldn't be surprised as it's his name after all.
The romance we got towards the middle end was soooo tasteless omg it made me roll my eyes a few times. The only use this female character had was to advance MC's powers and to defend him against other people rightfully not trusting him.
So it was quite well written, but as a character reader first, not for me.