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I have thought a lot about this review as I want to do this book justice but I don't want others to get the wrong idea. Wolfe's prose is elegant, the words just seem to flow seemlessly. unfortunately that is really all the good I have to say about the first two books in this series. The books follow a torturers guild member as he is shunned and sent on a journey. this journey quickly becomes conflated with otherwise useless happenings. It's as if he starts to send you in one direction then rando
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It started off as a four star book. The prose is nice and though I'm not much into stories about torturers, this one didn't focus on the job the character did. The problem is that the author later let the story degenerate into the standard Alice-in-Wonderland-style surrealism that I can't stand, basically making the story simply about one random-seeming encounter after another, each with the idea of being 'strange and wondrous', when what I like in stories is that they be realistic.
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