Review: Extremely well written story  which provoked rather intense reaction from me
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2012
REVIEW MAY OR MAY NOT CONTAIN VAGUE SPOILER, NOT SURE.So if I were evaluate  this story as emotionless machine (yes, I know such reviewers do not exist), I would have given it five plus stars - for such shortish novella, it is extremely tightly written (as much as I can see as ESL reader anyway), it evokes very vivid imagery in reader's mind, it asks hard questions, it is extremely morally ambigious and in theory all those are the things I am looking for in the well written story which I should like.I am sure that I will not tell you any secrets when I say that I am not a machine, I am a reader and sometimes my emotional reaction to the character grabs me and won't let me go and causes to feel negative things, which I have no idea if the author intended for me to feel or not. I think I fulfilled my internal obligation of being fair to the book when I stressed all of its positives and want to emphacize again that for the right reader it can easily be a five plus read.I am allowing myself a luxury of taking away only one star for intense hatred I felt at the end of the story for King Gidden. Yes, it is just my emotional reaction nothing more, and yes, I know wars sometimes end with this result, but this is fiction, I can allow myself a luxury of not to care. I do not feel that somebody who does not seem to feel any remorse in wiping out the whole nation is  somebody who deserves a happy ending, even happy for now.At least main character suffered a lot, but honestly after listening what they did, I did not feel that he suffered a yota less than what he deserved.And yes, I know it is possible that tables could have been turned, and then I would have cried for another nation who would have been wiped out. I am kind of sensitive to this kind of thing (personal history in a sense, or more precisely with whatever real world asocciations this story caused me).