There was to much ‘lucky happenings’ and flowery filler text. Just way too long. Numerous pages describing bad stuff happening of the tiring, soap-opera kind. This is the only time i've seen a highly rated, apparently award-winning book, that made me ...  Read More

Maybe there is a decent story here somewhere, but it is buried under robotic, moronic dialogue. The first one is believable but how are we supposed to buy that a master marshall did not spot the trap with the soldiers but a 12 year old apprentice did?...  Read More

Character development is nonexistent. It's as if the author midway through decided his hero needed to have a detrimental character flaw. The author expects all of us to embrace his poor little child hero for succumbing to the whoa of *, because it was...  Read More

Author does not practice the philosophy of showing things to your readers rather than shoving it down their throats. Spends pages on pointless minutia that doesn't propel the story.

Mc has a child * type of fear, when someone is very aggressive in a domineering fashion. There will be over used words and expressions of his knees wanted to buckle and other such silly nonsense.