Assassin's Quest

Also: it's so painful when the author telegraphs the solution to the big trilogy; how will the hero solve the world-threatening problem? Now we know; she's basically almost told us; but none of the characters have picked up on it… and the audiobook still has like 10 hours to go.

Noted on August 8, 2025

I found this very frustrating but I still listened to the whole thing; usually I have MORE patience with books in audio form. Maybe I would have been even more frustrated if this was on paper? Anyway - there's a lot of plot in the back half of this book, which was good for the genre, but during much of it - MOST of it - the hero just meanders along, with hardly any purpose or volition. It's a shaggy dog (pejorative).

The hero is in these repeating cycles of passivity, then grievous injury, and then montages of recovery. The cliche of being in and out of consciousness. So many episodes of this. Somebody give this lady an editor.

Noted on August 8, 2025

Once you're two books into a trilogy, are you really going to stop?

Noted on August 8, 2025