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A review by anatl
The Fifth Ward: First Watch by Dale Lucas
2.0
I really wanted to like this book but oh what a snooze fest. If you've never read Tolkein or played Elder's Scroll or World of Warcraft than maybe this book will seem fresh to you, to me it seemed to hackneyed and mundane. There was a lot of potential to the story, if only it didn't spend so much time describing the setting of a world I've already seen a hundred times before.
I like Orcs, dawrves and elves but they come established in a presupposed world which has very little use for women, the main thing to take away from this book is that women are mostly helpless victims and that everything can be solved by violence.
Beside no feminist brownie points, there is not enough character between the two male leads to keep my interest going. Both Rem and Torvall were totally stereotypical and bland, the interaction between them was classic buddy cop fair, the innocent rookie taken under the wing of a more worldly cynical and experienced cop. The experienced cop rejects him at first and then changes his mind and they begin build a camaraderie between them, solving crimes and upholding the law. The only original "edgy" thing in this book is the description of the elves as something out of the Rockey Horror Show. And did I mention that it took half a book to get some action going?
I didn't mean for this to come out so full of snark. It was a decent enough read, just simply uninspiring.
I like Orcs, dawrves and elves but they come established in a presupposed world which has very little use for women, the main thing to take away from this book is that women are mostly helpless victims and that everything can be solved by violence.
Beside no feminist brownie points, there is not enough character between the two male leads to keep my interest going. Both Rem and Torvall were totally stereotypical and bland, the interaction between them was classic buddy cop fair, the innocent rookie taken under the wing of a more worldly cynical and experienced cop. The experienced cop rejects him at first and then changes his mind and they begin build a camaraderie between them, solving crimes and upholding the law. The only original "edgy" thing in this book is the description of the elves as something out of the Rockey Horror Show. And did I mention that it took half a book to get some action going?
I didn't mean for this to come out so full of snark. It was a decent enough read, just simply uninspiring.