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Tower Lord
by Anthony Ryan
I think this is a solid second book, but it was lacking in a lot. The characters we follow have very little personality beyond a grim determination that you'd expect from such a dark world. It felt very repetitive, with combat scenes almost every chapter, but it did culminate in an epic final battle at Alltor. The first book explored Vaelin's abilities with the blood song so much, but this book has barely any of that. Although we do get to see other abilities throughout. I was really hoping for more in terms of Vaelin's romance and the blood song, especially meeting other character's that can use it. I understand these might be explored more in the third book or the Raven's blade, but I'm not even a fan of military warfare which seems to be the predominant subject in these books. Also, the fact that Frentis' storyline ended so abruptly, and that we didn't get to see Caenis much at all was disappointing.