Review: Enthralling, but.......
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
OK, where to start.  This series is addictive so be warned - if you don't like to be left in the lurch with cliff-hanger season finales, don't even start to read this series until ALL the books have been made available because it really is a series that you just want to keep reading until it reaches the end.  I am feeling particularly let down at this moment because I have been reading this series every spare moment I have had over the last few weeks and am now frustrated at having to wait to see how it all ends.Another criticism I have, and this is only a personal view but one that seems to be shared by other reviewers, is that there are so many flashback passages giving background information but are also broken down into short segments that have stretched over all four books that I find it irritating in that they still haven't actually told the whole story yet, just created a number of serials within a serial.The individual books don't actually end either, they just require you to buy the next book to continue the story.  I can understand the commercial aspect behind this but am beginning to wonder if the author has any ideas on how to end the story.Lucian is a very talented writer but I am not sure who he is writing for.  There is a lot of technical detail in the passages that are meaningless to the average reader and I too skipped a lot of it as well as some of the inane banter between some of the characters.The storyline is enthralling but it's time to put this story to bed and come up with a an ending.