lucas’s Reviews > The Grace of Kings > Status Update

finally going to finish this today. but first. must meet up with the kayaker who desires me . at spoons, no less. to determine whether or not he is worthy

the plot has picked up a little now, but the characters. i am a character-driven reader. i want to be able to pick apart a character's beliefs and motivations and little ideosyncracies. i care a lot about plot, of course, but i struggle to care about the plot and grow curious when the characters are one-dimensional. and, well, there is potential for intrigue, but nobody lives up to it. at least not yet

there was another woman. however her fifty pages of existence could be summed up with 'she lived. she served cunt. she died'. could have been a rather fascinating character, but alas. it was not to be.

there's a sweet little speech from kuni about respecting women, and yet there are only two named female characters so far: an old tavern owner who has had maybe five lines of dialogue, and kuni's wife who has had precious little page time on account of being pregnant. ken, you can do better than this. surely you can do better than this.

enjoying the concept of this book but it is difficult to immerse myself in when it keeps jumping between perspectives. if it were just a handful of characters, fair enough, but there have been at least seven povs (not counting the gods) in less than two hundred pages. which means there isnt enough time to really get to know the characters or begin to care about them. plus the random mid-chapter pov switches.

mata seems like he could be a character i grow fond of. however. eight feet tall ???

i think a kayaker is trying to ask me out on a date. or maybe he just really wants to drink whiskey. uncertain

it has been a while since i last delved into a new (to me) fantasy series, and this one has been on my shelf for a few months now. i have high hopes