If you like long, descriptive passages and endless dialogue which, by the way, is repetitive and does little to move things along, then this may well be the book for you.
Oh, somebody did receive a hot pie in the face around page 200. The escapes have been leisurely and uneventful, nobody has so much as raised a sword in anger and the two central characters hate each other. The jacket blurb from Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly describe the arrival of a 'master storyteller' who writes about 'hair-raising escapes, flashy sword fights and faithful friendship' and believe me when I tell you that by page 216 - where I've reached at the time of writing - this could hardly be further from the truth. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice.
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