Review: A punishing read - not a good value
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
I probably wouldn't have bothered writing a review for this book, except that I'm a little bit put out that I spent so much money on it.  Let me start by saying that this was a story with potential.  If it had been better written, I might have really enjoyed it.  Unfortunately, the book reads like a first draft that was dictated using the worst voice recognition software you have ever heard of.  Need some examples?  How about these?"Only Lords are allowed in such meetings, maintaining their power, for the Emperor is including every male is unprecedented.""Bodies crumb and fall under the on slot of Vasteri rage.""He's own quarters had better at least been cleaned."Alas, these are not isolated examples of bad writing.  The entire book reads like it was written by an elementary school student.  Go ahead and add shifting verb tenses, appalling diction, and horrific punctuation, and you will have some idea what it's like to slog through this mess.There are some gigantic logic gaps that are also somewhat annoying, but I don't have the energy to get into those.  The bottom line is that I'm not sure I could recommend this book if it were free, but I certainly can't do so at $3.99.