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this took me FOREVER to get through. the pacing in this book was agonizingly slow. it was literally just a bunch of world building - heavy on the language that was basically like italian/latin gibberish - and little to nothing when it came to character development and plot. the main character was a snooze to read about. he was clueless about everything going on. he's the heir to a mafia family but in this world the mafia is accounting??? please lol. and barely anything happened in the first 70% of the book and by the time it started it pick up, i didn't even care anymore no matter how jarring and gory some of the scenes got.
i think a big part of my disappointment was that i was expecting more fantastical elements (like, hello, dragons??? the cover???) than the political intrigue that took up most of the book. there were too many politics in play. i wanted to cry at how bored i was lol.
an extra star just for celia who was the only interesting character and aspect about this book. are we shocked that a woman was the only saving grace in this? no. we are not.
this took me FOREVER to get through. the pacing in this book was agonizingly slow. it was literally just a bunch of world building - heavy on the language that was basically like italian/latin gibberish - and little to nothing when it came to character development and plot. the main character was a snooze to read about. he was clueless about everything going on. he's the heir to a mafia family but in this world the mafia is accounting??? please lol. and barely anything happened in the first 70% of the book and by the time it started it pick up, i didn't even care anymore no matter how jarring and gory some of the scenes got.
i think a big part of my disappointment was that i was expecting more fantastical elements (like, hello, dragons??? the cover???) than the political intrigue that took up most of the book. there were too many politics in play. i wanted to cry at how bored i was lol.
an extra star just for celia who was the only interesting character and aspect about this book. are we shocked that a woman was the only saving grace in this? no. we are not.