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Had to sleep! Must stop reading into the early hours.

I'm intrigued. Each scene so far has introduced questions I want to learn more about.

Beautiful writing but in an unrelenting stream.

Remeniscient of Dylan Thomas the way it introduces so many families and flits between them

Ughh. I'm bored, to the point I don't want to pick it up again. 7% of basically nothing but tears, anger and wallowing. 7% of a book that's wasted. Does each scene of wallowing add to the plot in an important way? Nope. Is there dialogue of interest? Nope. Thank goodness my version is electronic, I'd hate to be holding such a waste of paper. YAWN

Quite possibly one of my favourite lines ever. I can't believe I'm laughing about a severed head.

Took a while to find, my version is called The Assassin's Prayer. So far very easy to get in to.

I have no interest in the characters though the seeing in Thailand is interesting. I've found myself reading a pile of other books instead of finishing this one.

Refreshing my memory before starting Shadows of a Storm! :-)

Weirdly it reads better after chapter 2.

I'm struggling with the use of belie in this sentence, it comes across like a double negative to me "... with a glint in the eyes which suggested a man more knowledgeable than his years would usually belie and..."

I'm not impressed with the writing so far, it is very basic and unpolished. Some parts particularly jarring: "... the pain raced through him, spurring him on beyond his physical limits", "The scarce amount of moonlight...". One description redeemed things "His hair was like a study in chaos conducted by a man who, far from keeping his pencils in size order, rarely kept them in the same place as each other".

I'm finding myself giggling at rather gruesome scenes! I love the humour in the writing, the content can be quite dark and full of political intrigue but the characters and writing make a great contrast to it. I think Glotka is brilliant, I love his cynicism, he is an oddly likeable character!

Seems easy enough to get into.