kathrynch's review against another edition
2.0
I had higher hopes for this. Some tropes that I really enjoy: a band of misfit pirates, a competent hero misjudged by those around him, melodrama of manners. Read through to the end of book 3 but the pay-off isn't quite there, with character motivations and the complex mythology not quite adding up. Also struggled with the huge numbers of narrative strands and characters detracting from the main plot threads - ended up skimming quite a few sections and just focusing on plot threads of interest.
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