A review by cellardoor10
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg

4.0

Okay I didn't see the twist ending coming, very nice.

Drags a little, in the way that long quest stories to establish a new series' world-building often do, but it did a pretty good job of giving us a bit of a tour of the people, social makeup, and religion of the region, leaving most of the high society/legal stuff for later books.

Valentine is a little bit of a blank protagonist + juggling, but not the most egregious.