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A review by ellyrarg
Shards of a Broken Crown by Raymond E. Feist
2.0
That was NOT a thrilling conclusion to the serpent war saga. That was a tooth pulling, painful stretching of a story that could have been significantly condensed.
The first two thirds of the book was awful political war stories. Go here, kill these people, wars coming here, move the armies here, oh no, there’s some kind of pattern but we’re not smart enough to figure it out. Eye roll. It was painful to read and I did not enjoy it. A lot of it was because there was no character growth. The characters were all ones we’d met before (and the only ones who changed were the ones who died). And without a central character going through some sort of development, the repeated tropes (“make sure you live, damn you!”) ran riot. It was awful.
Also, Patrick was a pain, and I was sad he survived the poison attempt.
From the last third, Nakor was always a novel point, particularly liked the floating priestess, and the dream of the gods storyline was okay.
The only redeeming factor was the return of the Upright Man on the end.
Would not read again. Was awful.
The first two thirds of the book was awful political war stories. Go here, kill these people, wars coming here, move the armies here, oh no, there’s some kind of pattern but we’re not smart enough to figure it out. Eye roll. It was painful to read and I did not enjoy it. A lot of it was because there was no character growth. The characters were all ones we’d met before (and the only ones who changed were the ones who died). And without a central character going through some sort of development, the repeated tropes (“make sure you live, damn you!”) ran riot. It was awful.
Also, Patrick was a pain, and I was sad he survived the poison attempt.
From the last third, Nakor was always a novel point, particularly liked the floating priestess, and the dream of the gods storyline was okay.
The only redeeming factor was the return of the Upright Man on the end.
Would not read again. Was awful.