A review by aphrael
The Grim Company by Luke Scull
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
3.0
I've waited to long to write this review and I can say the title is absolutely terrible because it took me a bit to remember what it was about.
The main character is absolutely insufferable, but the book is mostly self aware about it even if he isn't. This book has a lot of extremely fortuitous coincidences for the plot, but on the other hand people who seem important at first can die. That really ups the stakes.
The politics and factions are pretty messy and the history/theology is too. Nobody is absolute good or absolute evil, and even at the end of the book we don't know enough to realize what the consequences of the ending would be. I appreciate that.
Overall it's a pretty good book, even if one of the main characters is terrible. It ends on a big cliffhanger so I might pick up the next one.
The main character is absolutely insufferable, but the book is mostly self aware about it even if he isn't. This book has a lot of extremely fortuitous coincidences for the plot, but on the other hand people who seem important at first can die. That really ups the stakes.
The politics and factions are pretty messy and the history/theology is too. Nobody is absolute good or absolute evil, and even at the end of the book we don't know enough to realize what the consequences of the ending would be. I appreciate that.
Overall it's a pretty good book, even if one of the main characters is terrible. It ends on a big cliffhanger so I might pick up the next one.