![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. But at 700 pages, and me already grrrring by page 30, no, it's not going to happen. If you'd been 150 pages, maybe, Percepliquis, maybe. Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Not when there are so many books that bring a smile to my face or a well-deserved tear to my eye. There's no wrestling with one's conscience, no internal dialogue where the lady-ninja is desperate to help but (for some valid reason) has to keep hidden, nope, she just watches, waits for the knight to be slaughtered, and then (haha, the author tricked us!) kills the bad guy.Īnd I just. Well, nice of your to let your designated knight die, Lady.Īnd the author doesn't seem to realise this is a problem. followed by one of the poor fragile women unexpectedly unsheathing a sword and being so unexpectedly brilliant that Bad Guy was dispatched instantly. The tipping point came when the Bad Guy attacked the poor fragile women, and their designated helpful knight was cut down mercilessly in front of them. For all the author's strengths, he has equal (or worse) weaknesses, and I just can't take it anymore. I read the previous 5 (or 2 1/2, depending on your version), and was instantly reminded of how annoying the last book had been. ![]()
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