A review by notactuallyharry
Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A reasonably interesting (and also not original) premise -- young man goes on a journey of revenge, but it doesn't really have any unifying theme and the plot feels very workman-like, with essentially no build up to the climactic battle. I appreciated that the protagonist veered away from moustache-twirling in victory. He wants his enemies dead, but they don't need to know why. But otherwise the book was riddled with all of the least-interesting choices possible--signature boilerplate fantasy misogyny, a handsome womaniser of a protagonist, a rushed kind-of-romance plot, action sequences with nothing even remotely resembling stakes.