Fistandantilus reborn Book

2.5/5

This sure was a book. It wasn't a particularly good one overall but neither was it a particularly bad one.
Actually it might be a mistake to say this is one book. In reality it is two books.

The first 100 pages are a rather interesting fare giving us insight over the backstory of the main villain formated as a set of short stories.

The rest of the book feels like a completely different book. Its a dreadfully boring farmboy has family killes by dragon tries to defeat evil priest. Imagine the kind of story and writing people quote when they ridicule this type of fantasy. Thats what you will have to deal for about 150 pages.

Only in the last 30 pages does the book pick up again as all the elements come together. An interesting confrontation together with the resolution of the arc of the only interesting character

And make no mistake, the historian is the only intersecting character in this. Even the villain is nothing more than a cackling cartoonishly evil wizard. His schemes are interesting but he is not. You can literally predict his next move he is that cliche. And that wouldn't be a problem if there was other characters to pick up the slack. But there arent. I would also be remiss to mention there is a single female characters who spends 90 precent of her time captured. So this book is also problematic on that front.

I read it only because its the middle book in a trilogy and frankly i wouldn't read it under other circumstances. Especially the middle 100 pages were a dreadful slog as i said