![]() I recently reviewed The Painted Man (different author) and I wasn't kind to it, because I had no empathy for the characters and ultimately didn’t care what happened to them. It's a great combination of a well written book and first class narration. The book has a great depth of characters, and the narrator brings these to life wonderfully. Steven Pacey! Steven Pacey! Steven Pacey! I really enjoyed this, even more than the First Law Trilogy. Excellent narration rescues a rather forgettable storyline. The characters are all so extremely flawed and hateable to point you feel nothing for them, which doesn't give the listener much to identify and feel with through the course of the book. There aren't really any surprises here, no multi threaded grand design all coming together at the end. All in all it felt like the characters and story had moved from the sublime to the ridiculous. ![]() ![]() One particular failing that I found annoying was the eventual predictable situation of knowing something was going to go disasterously wrong when detailed and meticulously laid plans were set in motion. Abercrombie has excellent character development, but I feel that the characters are a little too disfunctional in an almost "American sitcom disfunctional family" style. Unfortunately this particular book is pretty much a straight out, almost boring tale, with only a twist at the end to keep it from being rated even lower. I listened to this book following the First Law series which I found very enjoyable. ![]()
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