I’m beginning this “review”(although it is more accurately a letter of complaint) before I’ve finished the book. At this point I’m 62 chapters in, and 81% done, and I’m sick to death of it. I’m struggling to finish, and I never not finish books. The only book I ever didn’t finish in disgust was the first Wraethlu book and this is nearly as bad as that. I don’t ever remember waiting this long for a book and being so disappointed. Even the Deathly Hallows didn’t disappoint me as much as this, and that—if you’ll remember my horror at that book—is saying something.
I have now finished and while the book took a minor turn for the better it soon plummeted back into “disappointing.”
( spoilers ahoy )