christianbk's reviews
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Read this for book club. So many things I didn’t enjoy including:

1) Off dialog. People don’t speak in a way that they repeatedly say their name every two sentences. One you see it, you’ll see it persists throughout.

2) Boring. Incredibly shallow.

3) Zero character development. These characters are molds of people.

I read a ton of fantasy and sci-fi. In almost every book, there are worthwhile quotes, characters that change and grow based on circumstances. This book had zero of that.

The Trials of Empire by Richard Swan

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

The final book in the trilogy was quite different than what I imagined it would be after reading the first. All together, this was a fantasy-horror series presented as one that would be steeped in politics and roving lipstick” that the first book paints. I rolled with it and found it to be worthwhile. This book has a LOT in it, which I’m kind of OK with in other books when things aren’t always described fully but you get to figure out as they continue getting mentioned and you can then suss things out by your own.

There are a couple elements of the story I didn’t care for but it didn’t drag things down for me too terribly.

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