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Wow.. Colour me disappointed. I think i see all these 5 star reviews and my expectation just goes through the roof. So here i am expecting some kick ass, mind blown fantasy book and i get nothing, zilch, nada.
My beef with this book? i felt it lacked structure and was, i have to say cleverly vague about everything to do with the forge father. How do the powers work really? At some point the forge father thing was like channel your powers through the ring and without thinking twice about it he-our protagonist, does that and it works.
On one hand i look at this and i'm like this makes no sense. and then in the other sense i'm like maybe the author is doing some satirical calling out of religions, and how they believe in spiritual powers and stuff like that..When i think of it from that perspective, i'm tempted to be like okay, if this forge father thing was an actual religion, it would make sense that your god would tell you to channel your powers through rings and you wouldn't think twice about it and it would work... your prayers/religious chants would work as some sort of power against evil which in this setting would be
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the whole plot twist was clever, it wasn't in all honesty properly executed. Yes back stories are important, but why devote such a huge, huge amount of space to that back story when there wasn't anything really poignant about it. It's not like Wynn developed any powers or did something particularly significant Like really there wasn't anything outstanding in my opinion about Wynn's life. All that backstory was just basically to tell us their names changed. As it was, it was just plain confusing moving between Wynn and Kharios.Overall not a great book, between the whole mining, forgettable characters, vagueness of the powers not much manages to shine through.