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A review by accidentalspaceexplorer
A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
4.0
It took me a while to get into this - my brain just wasn't quite ready for complicated political scheming. And yet, unlike most books, I found that I really enjoyed reading it in small bursts, a couple dozen pages at a time. It's just one of the ways in which this book was an unexpected read - it feels small despite the complicated effects the events undoubtedly have on its setting; it feels more personal and less like a sweeping political tale, even though the plot is clearly the latter.
I also appreciated the complexity of the main female character, Idaan, and the way her frustrations with how the society and place she was born into constrain her are not considered to be unreasonable, and in fact are often validated by even the other characters' thoughts. I appreciated her perspective in the novel, and her anger, and even her flaws.
Overall, I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to, and am curious where the rest of the series will take the story.
I also appreciated the complexity of the main female character, Idaan, and the way her frustrations with how the society and place she was born into constrain her are not considered to be unreasonable, and in fact are often validated by even the other characters' thoughts. I appreciated her perspective in the novel, and her anger, and even her flaws.
Overall, I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to, and am curious where the rest of the series will take the story.