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Meh

Pretty slow pacing or am I just slow reader now because of my slump?? Can’t find a book to match what I need 🥲

Pretty slow pacing ?

Prologue had me very intrigued, started off strong I suppose

slay swapping character povs and i don’t dislike either of them

bought my first ereader :D reading this from a recommendation from someone in my ffxiv fc lol. so far the writing isn’t impressive but it’s an easy read so i’m enjoying it

so i want to finish this series for 2025 bingo. could i have done something easier? yes. but i cant reread WoT in total.

DNF

“The pains of age remind us of the wisdom we have won through our trails”

This is so UNDERRATED

I give the characters and pacing a 4. The religious people were so annoying though. It tainted the rest for me. I give it an overall 3.5 stars.

I haven't hated a character so much since Jack Randall 🤬

coercion (sleep in my bed or in a pig house in winter) is essentially rape and it makes me really uncomfortable

nothing special so far, tbh

Ok these books are THICK. but so far I’m loving this. It’s got some major world building and slow character development but it’s well written and a captivating story

Writing good, lucid, character work was inconsistent (one of the two central POVs was clearly better written while the other was nondescript, pacing was all over the place and the central conflict is interesting but also feels very diffuse, not grounded. Missed opportunity in worldbuilding with the female church leadership.
Overall, fine, but not interested in reading on.

Liking it on a retry but not getting the level of investment that I had with A Game of Thrones by this point. Very much trying this as a series for ASOIAF readers so the comparisons are a bit inevitable, even if unfair.

Wow. This turns to be excitingly good. Slow and detailed but so atmospheric. Cosy but also dark. Suspenseful, intriguing, full of mystery and mysticism. Think of a female Tad Williams author writing a fantasy mystery that reads like historical fiction and that is full of flavour and intrigue.

That scene with the saint and the vision and THAT BATTLE! So much just happened. Also, Sanglant is my kind of sharp and prickly emo prince. I love him already.

So eldest daughters inherit property and eldest SONS marry out because the Lady tends the Hearth and it’s STILL SO MEDIEVAL. This feels closer to the time it’s drawing on than GoT was on a good day. I know because it’s SO much more alien to me. I love it.

Some early thoughts: why isn’t this popular as other door stops? I’m calling it The Sorting Hat Theory.

This gender balanced pseudo Catholicism with ALL of its attendant problems is AMAZING.

The redemption as the heresy is. Just. Wow. The theology geek in me can’t look away.

Alain just freed an Eika prince, traded blood, and mind melded with it. This will certainly not have consequences later.

I’ve owned this series since I bought them all when Borders closed. And now, the stars have aligned. I can’t wait.

Me ha interesado y me ha enganchado mucho más que el de Sanderson. Además me gustan los temas que no aparecen habitualmente en la Fantasía.

This is very slow but I love the writing

I bought books 1-3 in this series. THIS HAD BETTER BE GOOD.

Antonia's OP.

This book is trying to slip out of my grasp, and I'm not going to let it--for reasons I may or may not get into later. As a friend reminded me, "even if you read only three pages of x book per day, you'll finish it eventually." Look forward to my review in September?

Alain's section here has been a trudge. Kings and generals stuff (zzz), another couple pages of noble/royal family trees (zzz). More long scenes with powerful people doing horrible things. I mean, I'm not expecting the fizzy levity of the Alexis Hall book I'm listening to from this (heh), but the level of misery porn in this book is a smidge too high for me.

After a very slightly rocky patch, I'm back into this one. I appreciate the acknowledgment that someone doesn't recover from trauma/abuse immediately after they've gotten away from their bad situation. The character also has flashbacks when [spoiler] is mentioned in benign conversation, which is also in keeping with what I understand about PTSD.

Starting part II after a month's break. An infodump full of territories, nobles, family trees... disorienting, boring, redolent of the rote history courses I took in jr. high. Even with a fantasy map at the front of the book, and some character interactions to lend some context, there's no chance I'm going to remember all this stuff.