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poisonenvy's review against another edition
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2.5 stars.
One thing that's been bothering me since the first book was why the minotaurs attacked The Golden Cup and the other hand merchant boats, especially when Green went out of his way to mention that minotaurs didn't regularly do that. In this book, I see the purpose of the attack was to give some pretext to a human-minotaur alliance. That still doesn't explain their notifications though.
Though notification seems to be something Green struggles with. He doesn't give a believable one for why House Dirivan attacked Tiabot manor either - some girl hiding sheep is not enough to hire a small army to attack your neighbours unlawfully, especially when Dirivan was never mentioned in any of the other books, especially not as a family that had some kind of feud with Pirvan.
While the fight scenes are generally well written, then always seem to end in an unsatisfactory manner (this is true throughout all four books), where some minor character does all the major work and our heroes just watch with slack jaws. Likewise, this book is again filled with deaths and not one of them seems to have any purpose or punch.
One thing that's been bothering me since the first book was why the minotaurs attacked The Golden Cup and the other hand merchant boats, especially when Green went out of his way to mention that minotaurs didn't regularly do that. In this book, I see the purpose of the attack was to give some pretext to a human-minotaur alliance. That still doesn't explain their notifications though.
Though notification seems to be something Green struggles with. He doesn't give a believable one for why House Dirivan attacked Tiabot manor either - some girl hiding sheep is not enough to hire a small army to attack your neighbours unlawfully, especially when Dirivan was never mentioned in any of the other books, especially not as a family that had some kind of feud with Pirvan.
While the fight scenes are generally well written, then always seem to end in an unsatisfactory manner (this is true throughout all four books), where some minor character does all the major work and our heroes just watch with slack jaws. Likewise, this book is again filled with deaths and not one of them seems to have any purpose or punch.
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