![]() ![]() Ok, Royce is what he is, he may remain aloof and untouched, but Hadrian, the good one, continues to calmly eat, talk a lot and joke, almost indifferent to the current events, more disturbed and aggrieved by his flashbacking past than by what's actually going on. Any normal person would be terrified/outrageous at seeing what's going on. Spoiler alert (not really, but just in case)! The characters (even Hadrian) seem to be completely untouched by horrific events. Overall, in my opinion, it would be more fair to make it a short story instead of stretching it out artificially into a full-sized book. Some of these moments as well as philosophical speculations towards the second part of the book really made me want to rewind forward. A lot (too many to my taste) of flashbacks from the past (which we already know well about from the other books) do not contribute to characters development but rather break the pace of the story and constantly set us back. Since this story is set chronologically somewhere in the middle of the series, a few years after Hadrian and Royce first met, it means the readers are supposed to know who and what the characters are and why the act the way they do. ![]() ![]() When you long for some action the author goes into philosophical speculations, repeating what was already described in detail many times before. It would be perfect as a short story or a short novel, but dragged on into a complete book it is definitely overlong. And the story is actually a good one, but. ![]() I'm a big fan of the Riyria series and I truly love the characters. ![]()
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