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A review by vittorioseg
Death's Heretic by James L. Sutter
1.0
I'm not having luck with the pathfinder novels. This is the third I read that honestly simply bored me.
I was wondering why I didn't like it and another reviewer got the nail about the casual sexism and its true. It's very juvenile, but more than that, there is honestly no sense of suspense in the story. You get spoon fed the mystery and the solution and is more like a travelogue to the outer planes than anything else. The character Salim was interesting because you can see how much being in a god thrall hurts him, how much as a "free man" it disgusts him to bow to the gods of golarion. He (and the author) misuse the word Atheist but maybe that's simply the in-world evolution of the phrase and when he explains why I honestly can see where he is coming from.
But the rest is weak. I honestly jumped from the middle to the book to the ending because it was so tedious, to see how it would end and... it was horrible. It was honestly underwhelming how banal and cheap the confrontation and resolution went and the last line between Salim and Ceyanan was so corny that I could only roll my eyes.
So yeah, juvenile sexist, ham-fisted romance and plot weak make a bad reading.
For me, the best part was the beginning when Salim was hunting the ghouls when it looked that it was about to be a terror story that drew me in.
Oh well, another one to go.
I was wondering why I didn't like it and another reviewer got the nail about the casual sexism and its true. It's very juvenile, but more than that, there is honestly no sense of suspense in the story. You get spoon fed the mystery and the solution and is more like a travelogue to the outer planes than anything else. The character Salim was interesting because you can see how much being in a god thrall hurts him, how much as a "free man" it disgusts him to bow to the gods of golarion. He (and the author) misuse the word Atheist but maybe that's simply the in-world evolution of the phrase and when he explains why I honestly can see where he is coming from.
But the rest is weak. I honestly jumped from the middle to the book to the ending because it was so tedious, to see how it would end and... it was horrible. It was honestly underwhelming how banal and cheap the confrontation and resolution went and the last line between Salim and Ceyanan was so corny that I could only roll my eyes.
So yeah, juvenile sexist, ham-fisted romance and plot weak make a bad reading.
For me, the best part was the beginning when Salim was hunting the ghouls when it looked that it was about to be a terror story that drew me in.
Oh well, another one to go.