Welcome to Litsy!

Starts out slow and is sometimes hard to follow some of the jumps between characters, but I found it got better the further in I got. The end of this first book lacked a something I can't quite put my finger on though. There's a good deal of European sword terminology many people won't know without looking it up. The battles were fairly realistic to real sword fighting in their description.

It took me forever to read this book. I've had a lot going on, which didn't help. But also, it just didn't call to me. The number of great writers involved is crazy! It made me hope for a really fascinating read. It was...okay. I feel very wrong saying this, but I'm not sure I'll read the rest. It's very hard on my compulsions, but I'm just not sure. I didn't have much affection for any of the characters... :/