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bunrab's review
5.0
If I could give this one six stars I would. Definitely the best in the series in my opinion. Note that it is also the least like the others. Starting this series is a disturbing experience, and you have to get through the "do I even want to be reading this, no matter how well written?" question for the first few books, but by the time I got to this one, I figured it had been worth it, no matter how much the first one disturbed me. (And honestly, writing this years afterward, when in the meantime we've had Game of Thrones, the violence and sadism in this series aren't going to seem /nearly/ as extreme or disturbing to a lot of people.) Another note: we find in the course of the book that Garol Vogel's middle name is Aphon, which if one decides to read this as a Greek compound and Vogel as the German word it is, means that this charactor's name is Garol Silent Songbird. Don't know whether that was deliberate or not.
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