I picked this up but returned it to the library after reading about 70 pages, deciding it was too much of a time commitment than my job allowed for at the time.
I'm curious, what did Vaatzes decide to do that made you feel like he was a monster? When I left off he'd just been picked up by... that one army... and wasn't really doing anything at all.
I agree with the "every voice sounds the same" complaint.
Well. . . all that manipulation only got him into the neighboring country. He STILL has to totally tear down his old country (which he maintains he still loves and totally believes in) so he can be reunited with his family. Because, you know, this way is much easier than just having someone kidnap them and bring them to him. They aren't locked up in an impenetrable fortress or anything.
I think the books are supposed to reminiscent of The Count of Monte Cristo -- just kind of normal person pushed way beyond the bounds of decency by circumstances beyond his control who then orchestrates this whole huge many-part revenge because people are fundamentally easy to manipulate. Which I loved in The Count of Monte Cristo, especially because he's redeemed in the end. (Dunno if Vaatzes will be.) But The Count of Monte Cristo (1) doesn't spend a ton of time in Dantes' head, where we can see the weak rationalizations; and (2) NOBODY GETS KILLED. Killing =/= financially ruining. And of course, The Count of Monte Cristo is very based in personal
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I'm curious, what did Vaatzes decide to do that made you feel like he was a monster? When I left off he'd just been picked up by... that one army... and wasn't really doing anything at all.
I agree with the "every voice sounds the same" complaint.
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I wonder how the writer sustains a story like that for three books, though.
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I think the books are supposed to reminiscent of The Count of Monte Cristo -- just kind of normal person pushed way beyond the bounds of decency by circumstances beyond his control who then orchestrates this whole huge many-part revenge because people are fundamentally easy to manipulate. Which I loved in The Count of Monte Cristo, especially because he's redeemed in the end. (Dunno if Vaatzes will be.) But The Count of Monte Cristo (1) doesn't spend a ton of time in Dantes' head, where we can see the weak rationalizations; and (2) NOBODY GETS KILLED. Killing =/= financially ruining. And of course, The Count of Monte Cristo is very based in personal ( ... )
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