thedashdude 's review for:

Thron in Flammen: Roman by Brian Staveley
1.0

The Emperor's Blades: 3/5

The Providence of Fire: 3/5

Maybe I was in a bad mood but this sucked and I gave both books 3 stars because they were good enough and maybe it would get better but it didn't and the more I think about them the less I like them. Might read book 3 just to see if I've been unfair in retrospect but might not.
The idea of evil buddhism was pretty cool and I dig the lore surrounding the early history of man but the plot was lame and monk boy was a cool idea and weak in practice and edgy bird man and worthless princess were not fun either conceptually or in practice.