[Spoilers!] I’m over Morgan Rice. I mistakenly bought the third in this “Bestselling Series,” on audible, thus learning two things: 1) a lot of people know nothing, and 2) always check that a book you’re buying is the first, and if it isn’t don’t buy any more!
The first book was horribly written, and I spent my review discussing the poor characterization and overuse of key phrases, “He could hardly believe…”
This book, I began to actively hate how she writes out Thor’s thought process, or lack thereof, as here “he can’t imagine,” or “doesn’t want to seem…” or some such where she basically displays him to be overthinking everything, but coming to few conclusions and not usually doing anything productive except by pure instinct and happenstance, because “he possesses a great power he doesn’t yet understand”–which is a bullshit premise from the beginning.
Then there are the internal and external inconsistencies. For the former, the Empire controls everything but the Ring, yet the Ring sends troops every year to another land?
A few of the latter are waste dumps in the same room as the prep kitchen. Sure Medieval times were gross, but nobody has a chamber pot in their kitchen. Also, ships big enough to carry 50 (more) giants (than one carrying hundreds of men) that have masts only secured by a single rope–a rope that is at the same time thin enough to be severed by a single, thrown spear–masts that are big enough that when brought down by the spear severing the rope, sink the entire ship. It’s not merely improbable, it’s impossible, and your story becomes dumb. Expend a little effort, do a little research, and write something plausible.
The one redeeming quality of this book is that it was short.
