A review by volchitsa
The Falcon Throne by Karen Miller
3.0
This book was so slow going. It took me well over a month to read, when usually I devour this sort of thing in a week or so. It took a good hundred pages for me to actually get into it.
Like others have said, this is very Game of Thrones-esque but kind of lacks GRRM's style and ability to make the world and characters flow with each other. I think it has SO much potential, but it just didn't quite cut it for me. Another big problem I had is, there are literally three characters that I like. THREE. And all three of them are barely mentioned at all. The rest are either not interesting, barely in it so you can't decide if you like them or not, or are literally just nasty people doing nasty things for no apparent reason. I think the good characters are obviously going to end up appearing more in the sequels, but do I really want to read all of those just for them? I probably will, as I really want this series to improve and go somewhere as it could be great, but we'll see.
One more thing - Karen Miller, please stop with the accents. I get that the people in the Marches are meant to sound common and poor, but if I read "yes" said as "iss" one more time, I might just rip my hair out.
Like others have said, this is very Game of Thrones-esque but kind of lacks GRRM's style and ability to make the world and characters flow with each other. I think it has SO much potential, but it just didn't quite cut it for me. Another big problem I had is, there are literally three characters that I like. THREE. And all three of them are barely mentioned at all. The rest are either not interesting, barely in it so you can't decide if you like them or not, or are literally just nasty people doing nasty things for no apparent reason. I think the good characters are obviously going to end up appearing more in the sequels, but do I really want to read all of those just for them? I probably will, as I really want this series to improve and go somewhere as it could be great, but we'll see.
One more thing - Karen Miller, please stop with the accents. I get that the people in the Marches are meant to sound common and poor, but if I read "yes" said as "iss" one more time, I might just rip my hair out.