A well-detailed, well-described, and elaborate fantasy setting with dark prose, beautiful and vivid descriptions of characters, and meticulous and immersive world-building.
A well-detailed, well-described, and elaborate fantasy setting with dark prose, beautiful and vivid descriptions of characters, and meticulous and immersive world-building.
The antiheroes make you root for them! Their gritty, dark deeds blend with their odd but righteous sense of justice.
I can confidently say that the Stormlight Archive's magic system is the best I've ever seen in Fantasy Fiction.
I commend the willingness to use far more original cultural elements than in book one. It gives the book a semblance of originality, which I greatly appreciate
... the author probably outdid himself this time. His much-lauded magic system is on show here once again, as it was in Foundryside and Divine Cities
The comradeship and romance in this book were well executed, and I was pleased to see the fight scenes and the magic system well-depicted.
Like the first book, the writing is fluid and contains meticulously detailed world-building, characterizations, and an extremely gripping plot.
Hobb seems to have a knack for giving you endings that absolutely makes you want to scream at the injustice of it all.
One way or the other, the women in this book, no matter what their situation was, rallied and took control of their damn lives!!
Kuku had successfully brought over the majority of the Assembly to his line of thinking with a combination of articulate arguments and timely assassinations.
The Last Son of Ahriman is a very good book, and I'll be pleased to continue with the dark adventures of Simon Bell and his cohorts.
When I pick up books written by women in this genre, this is what I want to see- female characters who are unapologetic in their being.
