Great as always!

All books have become my favorite series of all time and I'm looking forward to hopefully reading many more!

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Love it!

Love it ! Happy to have more of the world you have created. All of the books are very special and entertaining.

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spannend, was 800 Jahre später passiert ist

allerdings kann dieses Buch nicht mit age of Empire mithalten. ich habe die dramatized Version gehört, hier wurden die Namen ganz anders ausgesprochen - was zu Verwirrung geführt hat und auch etwas störend war. inhaltlich war auch ein Fehler dabei, wo Tektion sagt, dass vor 800 Jahren Niffron zuerst das Horn geblasen hat und der Prinz das Horn danach zur Challenge blies. vermeidbare Fehler! All in all fand ich es cool zu hören, was aus dem Empire geworden ist... aber so richtig gefallen hat mir die Umsetzung nicht. warum würden die Helden von damals ihren Kindern all die wichtigen Informationen vorenthalten? Schien zum Teil einfach unlogisch.

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Too much of the 'First Empire'-Formula

Like most I really enjoyed Riyria. But starting with the First Empire series the stories lost their witty, funny and adventurous side. This book is suffering from the same problems.

1. Deus Ex Machina: There are gods who are toying with mortals. This makes for an incredible bad long term story if you're not looking at it from the gods perspective. Everything is on rails (because we already know what's going to happen to the bad guy) and the main characters just go through a somewhat heavily constructed plot to tie lose ends together. Because they are being played or it is foreseen.
2.) Frustrating levels of misunderstandings, selfdoubts and blindness of main characters.
3.) Sullivan is emphasising that history tends to get blurry and mythy over time and generations. He is in fact building a whole story arc on that for the second time. But this time a character who lived shortly after or even in the age of wonders forgets or doubts all these old truths to the point that it serves as a bumper for any story holes. This got as far as me doubting if I even like one of the main characters.
4.) Everything is at such a large scale that it feels like Sullivan is just writing down the events as opposed to writing a story which is focussing on likeable, relatable characters experiencing a wonderous adventure.
5.) Everyone is just in time for the story to tie up neatly, waiting for their cues to miss, rescue or murder each other. Remember? Gods! Deus Ex Machina. Some hints and odd behaviours later, which are leading to the new book, we get a rediculous "happy end" for the looney character, which is just throwing a child's mental health under the wagon for some good old godly intervention and some questionable heart warming.

Still after all this criticism, the book is not bad but lacks where predecessors already had weak points.

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Not sure what happend here ...

It feels like someone else wrote this one. It starts out great, but then seems to jump over important development bits to the point of some of the happenings feeling disconnected. I wonder ... if this is Robins first, it's a great book :) But if it's MJS latest, it feels like he got tired of this universe.

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