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This book reminded me why I like Black Company. After long break, Port of Shadows and The Silver Spike the series is back in shape.

The lore is 10/10, everything I hoped for and more, but the pacing is awfully slow. People just travel... then you follow other people following the first people and so it goes. It's very much traditional fantasy albeit with darker tone. Hero's journey. I like it a lot but I'm unable to force myself to read it, struggling with even a chapter a day by this point. I'll return after some palette cleanser.

This has potential to be at least as good as Dragonfly Falling but with one glaring exception. Che. I hate her and it's getting worse every book. She's almost like Charlie from Flowers for Algernon before the cure at this point. She's one of the dumbest most annoying characters in fantasy.

This book has some of the best King's writing but NOTHING IS HAPPENING! It's almost entirely flashbacks constantly jumping around. There's no cohesive plot, just a bunch of stories and it makes me want to read something else instead. But at the same time while I'm reading it I'm thoroughly enjoying the prose. If only it was shorter.

Time for a re-read. First time I really disliked it but maybe I wasn't in the right head space. I like all of his early books except this one so maybe I missed something.

Also, why are there two 'Salem's Lot book profiles on Goodreads? Makes no sense.

My jaw just hit the floor.