At another time, I might have given this book a full four stars, but I’ve been on a streak of reading really great books lately, and this ended up feeling overly long, as well as frustrating due to some plot decisions that I just hate, even if I get why they’re there. This is the second in Hobb’s Farseer trilogy, and for me unfortunately, a lot of it felt like a replay of conflicts and events from the first book, only on a widening scale. […]
Not quite what I was expecting, but I like!
I’ve been meaning to read this series for yearrrrrrs, and I finally got around to it. It was . . . not what I was expecting! I mean, right away it’s pretty hard not to notice it’s in first person POV, which is still incredibly rare in epic fantasy, and I think dangerous because it’s so hard to pull off. But I quickly adapted to it, and think it works well here. I still think a nice third person POV lends a storyteller quality that […]