by Brent Weeks
Picked this up because of high ratings on goodreads.I will say this: it's a quick read. it didn't feel like 650+ pages. Unfortunately, at no time did I really find myself absorbed in the book. I found the colloquial, simplistic writing style very distancing. This may be a personal preference, but I ...
It's been a long time since I read fantasy and this reminded me of why I love it and also why I took a break from it. Mr Weeks created an intriguing and complex Medieval world. Azoth is a street kid who dreams of escaping the world of poverty and one day apprenticing under Durzo Blint. A wetboy or a...
This is one of those books where I would have benefited from creating a spreadsheet of characters names and who they are in relation to the hero. It was a good story but I couldn't quite get into the world Weeks built. The secondary characters didn't seem quite fleshed out and I wonder if some of ...