A Torch Against the Night

This author hates her characters and does everything she can to make you hate them too.

The plot is interesting and the setting amazing, but the resolution of every thread is frustratingly underwhelming. There is a great promise in the set up and no satisfaction at the end. Like biting into chocolate and tasting sauerkraut. It's the misery of A Game of Thrones minus the cushioning of wit and catharsis.

The main characters are stupidly hasty and impulsive when they should be patient and infuriatingly inert and indecisive when they should act. There is no one worthy of respect in this book.

It only escapes the 1 star because of the great world building.