A review by tani
The Forever Knight by John Marco

2.0

I thought this started really well. I liked the concept and the world-weary attitude of the main character, and I read the first sixty or seventy pages really quickly. Unfortunately, it went downhill after that. I got really impatient with Lukien making the same mistakes over and over again. There's a difference between being world-weary and being self-obsessed, and I think you cross that line right around the time that you crush the dreams of a traumatized 14 year old for the third or fourth time. The book also had some issues with misogyny that felt minor at the beginning, but got really annoying at the end. When the last hundred or so pages of a book only mentions women as sexual objects, I get a little irritated. Heck, I think I've talked myself into downgrading this from three stars to two...