Malice: Award-winning epic fantasy inspired by the Iron Age

If David Gemmell and George R R Martin had ever collaborated, this would have been the result. A world where destiny, good, evil, loyalty and betrayal play massive parts and the author isn't afraid to kill people you like off. You will be miffed at him for killing some of the characters off, but you'll forgive him by the end of the book, almost.

I had to grind my teeth to finish this book. It is horrible with character development and plot development. The flipping from one character to another is annoying because nothing significant happens. You would think that the reason to do something like changing from one character to another would be to show the development of characters in their own places towards the point purpose plot of the book. No. Everytime it is insignificant and doesn't add at all to the story being told it doesn't even give insight or development of character it's as if you are reading pointless side episodes that add nothing. I kept expecting this to get better it didn't. Every character is 2 dimensional. Then the author will use a side characters name like they were introduced already when there was no build up or precursor to this spontaneous friendship. And every piece of ground you walk on is called the floor whether your on a road or in a forest. This is young adult or worse.

So average it could be the guy from Idiocracy. Shallow predictable characters and coarse plot development. Kept me mildly interested, but book 2 got worse.