Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > The Night of the Swarm > Status Update

I hate to do this, but I'm abandoning this book. After nearly a year trying to convince myself to just buckle down and read the rest of the book and failing to find any motivation to do so other than bloody-mindedness, I finally took the path of last resort today and read the ending, and... I'll just say it gave me strong Elfstones of Shannara vibes (no people trees though), shame...

hmmm... I reread all 10 Safehold books in the same time I've read one chapter of this... MUST. TRY. HARDER. or not...

This book is just drama, Drama, DRAMA. There's looming apocalypse drama, there's political drama, there's racial drama, there's interpersonal conflict drama, there's relationship drama; just drama for days. Between the DRAMA, the lack of a stable drama-resistant main character, and the hanging doom of the editorial comments, it's a bit too much for me, which is why my progress on this book has been glacial.

I grow more and more certain that I'm not going to like how this ends... sigh...