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A review by eleven_hummingbird
Beastslayer by William King
4.0
A good grimdark adventure in a city under siege. I definitely liked this more than the previous couple of entries in the series.
Despite almost the entirety of the novel taking place in the city of Praag, enough locations and characters are met within the city to keep the story interesting. Jumping perspective to the Chaos leaders besieging the city is also fun. As usual, I found myself skimming over the whirlwind of fantasy violence at the end. What can I say, I'm here for the adventure, tragedy, drama, and humor.
On that note, some of the previous books have really great, cheesy romance arcs, which I am disappointed to say this novel most entirely abstains from. I believe the narrative spends more time with the love interest's dad than with Ulrika herself, who literally sleeps through most of this book. It's a shame; Daemonslayer went to some effort to introduce Ulrika and now it feels the author just does not care about her.
Despite almost the entirety of the novel taking place in the city of Praag, enough locations and characters are met within the city to keep the story interesting. Jumping perspective to the Chaos leaders besieging the city is also fun. As usual, I found myself skimming over the whirlwind of fantasy violence at the end. What can I say, I'm here for the adventure, tragedy, drama, and humor.
On that note, some of the previous books have really great, cheesy romance arcs, which I am disappointed to say this novel most entirely abstains from. I believe the narrative spends more time with the love interest's dad than with Ulrika herself, who literally sleeps through most of this book. It's a shame; Daemonslayer went to some effort to introduce Ulrika and now it feels the author just does not care about her.