Alex Albrecht’s Reviews > Assassin's Apprentice > Status Update

I am absolutely loving this book. Much as I did when reading The Blade Itself, the first book of my favorite series, I cannot help but feel that I am reading something truly special that will stay with me for a long, long time. I am reading it slowly, as I have been very busy lately, but I have a feeling I won’t be able to temper it much longer, and that I will read this at a more frenetic pace as I get further.

And so begins my next foray into a modern masterpiece of epic fantasy. While I’ve started other big series, I plan on reading them both at slower rates (Suneater because it is dense af and DCC because it’s for a book club). THIS series, however, will likely be my life for the next 1.5-2 years. I am very hopeful that this will be my next First Law. The prose took me a page or two to settle into, but quickly felt right