Derrick J. (ravensknight) reviewed on 11/6/2009 + 178 more book reviews

For whatever reason, I felt bogged down reading this book from beginning to end. The initial setup, the prologue, was good. Quick, fast, hard. Then we spend chapters upon chapters following people doing ordinary medieval'ish stuff.

I don't care about backstabbing, power hungry Thanes and the the hassles they cause. It seemed like the main set of characters [from all sides] spent their time running around either trying to escape or to capture. For a 600+ page book, there sure was a lot of what I would classify as "setup" for the rest of the story.

It wasn't a bad read. It was well written, crafted and put together pretty good. But the story, as paced and told, just never got me excited or even really interested.

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