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A review by xphile
The Grim Company by Luke Scull
2.0
So this book? It was sort of a hot mess. Characters are all over the place, they are always being saved by some matter of convenience or another, and I'm not sure what the actual story that was taking place here was.
So this was the first book in a series, and a worldbuilding book, so I forgive a lot of the information dump that has to happen. Through that, we meet a bunch of characters... and have very little reason to care about most of them. The "hero" of the story... if you don't want to stop reading about him after 2-3 paragraphs, you are a better man than I. His love interest, which IS an interesting character... which we learn absolutely nothing about till the last 25% of the book and may have the most anticlimactic ending in this story. Brodar Kayne and Jerek the Wolf are the two redeeming characters in this story, as you seem them grow (a little) and have backstories that are actually exaborated upon.
Overall, the setting for this book is excellent. A few of the characters are really interesting. Unfortunately, they are tiny bits of gold and you have to sift through a ton of rocks to find them.
So this was the first book in a series, and a worldbuilding book, so I forgive a lot of the information dump that has to happen. Through that, we meet a bunch of characters... and have very little reason to care about most of them. The "hero" of the story... if you don't want to stop reading about him after 2-3 paragraphs, you are a better man than I. His love interest, which IS an interesting character... which we learn absolutely nothing about till the last 25% of the book and may have the most anticlimactic ending in this story. Brodar Kayne and Jerek the Wolf are the two redeeming characters in this story, as you seem them grow (a little) and have backstories that are actually exaborated upon.
Overall, the setting for this book is excellent. A few of the characters are really interesting. Unfortunately, they are tiny bits of gold and you have to sift through a ton of rocks to find them.