I always enjoy Brom's novels. This ended up being a well done and dark epic fantasy novel. It does get a bit long at times, but overall I enjoyed it.
The novel deals with a story about purgatory, religion and lost gods of old. Our anti-hero Chet ends up in purgatory after being murdered by an evil being and goes on an epic quest to stop this evil and save his wife.
The world was well put together and Brom's artwork was amazing, although I wish there had been more of it.
My biggest gripe about this book is that it is told from so many different viewpoints. I think there seven or eight different viewpoints and many of the chapters were only a couple pages long. This made the story really disjointed and resulted in somewhat poor characterization.
Overall this is a well done dark epic fantasy. I enjoyed the world-building but through the constant (and brief) viewpoint switches were distracting. I also thought many of the characters were underdeveloped (probably because there were so many of them). If you are a Brom fan you will probably enjoy this. However I liked âThe Child Thiefâ a lot better than this book.
The novel deals with a story about purgatory, religion and lost gods of old. Our anti-hero Chet ends up in purgatory after being murdered by an evil being and goes on an epic quest to stop this evil and save his wife.
The world was well put together and Brom's artwork was amazing, although I wish there had been more of it.
My biggest gripe about this book is that it is told from so many different viewpoints. I think there seven or eight different viewpoints and many of the chapters were only a couple pages long. This made the story really disjointed and resulted in somewhat poor characterization.
Overall this is a well done dark epic fantasy. I enjoyed the world-building but through the constant (and brief) viewpoint switches were distracting. I also thought many of the characters were underdeveloped (probably because there were so many of them). If you are a Brom fan you will probably enjoy this. However I liked âThe Child Thiefâ a lot better than this book.
