And the worldbuilding is pretty good too, not delivered in chunks but naturally revealed through the story.The thing that is making me seriously reconsider reading the rest of Karen Miller's work comes about five hundred pages into a six hundred page book. Even Durm, with his sickening attitude towards Gar, is still a person - he loves the king, genuinely has the good of the kingdom in mind. Fane is genuinely a girl with too much responsibility and a sharp tongue. Borne and his wife genuinely love each other and you see that coming through in the writing.
I love Gar (not a second son for once! but with all the self-perceived inadequacies of the best second sons of the genre) and his relationship with Asher Asher I find abrasive and annoying and often too coarse to be true the supporting characters like Matt and Darran and the king, I love, because they seem like people. The thing that I've enjoyed so much throughout this book is the characters. I was feeling very frustrated by all the build-up with no plot as such, and then I read this review and thought, hm, actually, I agree. I'm on the last hundred pages or so, and I feel so torn. I haven't quite finished this book yet, as I type this.
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