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The Children of Gods and Fighting Men
by Shauna Lawless
One dimensional uninspired characters with zero self awareness who plot and scheme to no end with no signal to the reader as to why we should care at all.
The setting might have been more interesting if it had been treated like a character in the story. Instead what you get are name-drops and generic "it was on a coast", or "they went to an island". I think a river featured once?
The main characters were all reprehensible and acted not only foolishly but also both wildly ignorant and naive of the world. In one sentence a character fears for her life upon glimpsing a sword resting by a fireplace, and in another talks about her good friend, a remarkable warrior who practices blade work daily. Ever other page I stumbled over a new lack of insight.
I'm going to skip the grocery list of a man who represents all that is good and desirable, as well as the detestable supporting cast of male characters, and just say that none of them are men to walk the mountains with.
I'm sure that it isn't the worst book I've read. It was most certainly however, a tough book to finish.
The setting might have been more interesting if it had been treated like a character in the story. Instead what you get are name-drops and generic "it was on a coast", or "they went to an island". I think a river featured once?
The main characters were all reprehensible and acted not only foolishly but also both wildly ignorant and naive of the world. In one sentence a character fears for her life upon glimpsing a sword resting by a fireplace, and in another talks about her good friend, a remarkable warrior who practices blade work daily. Ever other page I stumbled over a new lack of insight.
I'm going to skip the grocery list of a man who represents all that is good and desirable, as well as the detestable supporting cast of male characters, and just say that none of them are men to walk the mountains with.
I'm sure that it isn't the worst book I've read. It was most certainly however, a tough book to finish.