4.54 avg rating — 732,524 ratings

"It's just too darn hard going!!! I never had this trouble with the Hobbit!"

3.63 avg rating — 59,358 ratings

"I got about 3/4 of the way through this and it was a hard slog! Everytime I got remotely drawn to what was going on in one timeline it would jump back to the other one and kill my interest."

4.41 avg rating — 213,326 ratings

"I think this is just a big-assed daunting book. Not that I haven't read big-assed books before but this was a lot about the scenery and fabrics and the... hang on where's the friggin story already?!"

4.15 avg rating — 460,867 ratings

"As soon as I got into a completely different world to the one I'd become familiar to in book one I felt an immediate disappointment. As the only thing that carried over was the one charecter I didn't particularly like I soon lost interest."