Well! One more chapter of the Gorian saga is over. I think the prevailing question is why do we persist with book after book of terrible writing and editing and keep coming back for the crumbs of storyline Norman graces us with amongst the sea of propaganda and redundant useless information. I have no idea! Three quarters of the book you beat your head with the brick of a book and wonder why are you doing this to yourself, but than he gets the action going and you still feel the elusive something which makes the regular characters compelling and you just want to know what happens with them and the strange world they live on ultimately ... . Somehow by this point they have gotten under your skin and you care, despite the efforts of the author to ruin it all for you! So, I guess I will be on to the next one and when I reach the last book, it better have been worth it!!!!!
Honestly, the books in the series written from the "female/slave" first-person perspective bore the frelling golram shtako out of me, so I listened to this one 3x speed narration. Did you know you could do that with an Audible.com Audio book? It was a bit like listening to the end of one of those TV car ads where they talk really fast, but you get used to it. I only slowed it down when something really germane to the larger world events like the conflict between Kurii & Priest Kings and other major Gorean City-State, and world powers happened.
