I would actually rate this book closer to a 2.5 but I rounded down. I found this book to be incredibly mediocre. Even though I read the entire novel (it took me a long time as I really had to push myself to finish it) I have no interest in reading any of the other books in the series. There we...
The middle book of a series in normally a big, thick filler trying to meet up built up characters from the first and put them into the beginning adventure for the next, in 'The Uncrowned King' though, this generalisation could not be further from the mark. A little shorter than it's predecessor ...
Overall - I kinda liked it, no more, no less. Still the first book is a highlight of the series for me. I do enjoy the plot, but there has been an increasing number of inconsistencies and implausibilities that keep making me flinch. The timekeeping is sort of off, and characters make what can onl...
She tried to make herself useful, but the kingsdaughter had a servant for everything.Every day more ships arrived from Rolencia laden with treasures stolen from her people. Greed rode the city, as wealth was flaunted and gifts exchanged. The greater the gift, the greater the giver. Then, this mor...
He often forgot to eat, so deep was he in his study. Tonight it was the Wyrd scrolls. He had never been able to work out why the T’En had powers, when True-men, the gods’ chosen people, had none. If there were no gods, as he feared, then this was just bad luck. But he kept searching for a logical...
Imoshen wished they would stop. Someone grabbed her. ‘Get your hands off me!’ Imoshen felt disoriented and nauseous with the sudden swing from deep sleep to awareness. ‘T’Imoshen...’ Merkah cried. ‘You’ve come back to us.’ She was lying on the day bed with a shawl thrown over her. Its silky mater...
‘No more broken nose,’ Reoden said. Since he’d never seen himself before arriving on the ship, and by then his nose was broken, he wasn’t used to this new face. But it did feel good to be able to breathe freely again. ‘Thank you.’ The healer beamed. How could she be so kind to him, yet lock the g...
While it was possible to recognise another T’En by his or her gift, there was too little residue left on these plaits to identify anything but the genders. Imoshen wanted to get through the formalities and make her point about the consequences of burning the banners, but there was still a pile of...
What he didn’t know was the layout of the Utland vessels. He’d spent his time on a captured Merofynian vessel. Only one of the renegade’s ships seemed to be occupied. A glow came from the hold. Perhaps they were still stowing the stores they’d stolen. On the other ship the renegades had either do...