Review: Terrible plotting, thin characters (read 10% of book before quitting)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
I bought this today based on the recommendation on instapundit by Sarah Hoyt. I am about 10% into the Kindle version and ready to demand my money back. This book sucks.1. There are many grammatical mistakes. The book needs another read by the "beta readers" to correct these *obvious* problems.2. The dialogue is atrocious.3. The motivations of the characters is 2-dimensional. The emperor practically twirls his mustache whenever he orders something evil.4. Years or decades pass between paragraphs within the same chapter. The plotting is terrible.5. It reads very much like a fairy tale instead of science fiction or space opera.I can't see how the book will get any better so I'm stopping now. I hope this message saves someone else from wasting their money. At minimum, get a "sample" from Amazon and read it before spending $4!The 4 reviews that I see posted already are all 4 or 5 stars. This is shocking to me. I can't believe I'm reading the same book that they are.