hagbard_celine 's review for:

The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
2.0

I'll keep reading, because this series is competently done and it scratches an itch, but I find myself annoyed and skipping an awful lot.

It's been out for 12(?) years and has achieved quite a following. The people who love it (at least online) are not my people. Published in 2008? Part of the grimdark ascendancy, I guess. Bleck.

Can we just call grimdark what it is? --> Dudes writing normal fantasy books with 10% more blood and 800% more sexual violence.