Priest
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Average rating3.8
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Ratings8
Average rating3.8
After years spent in the inn he bought and never opened, Heden is drawn out, and sent into a dark forest to investigate the death of a knight.
Nothing is what it seems. Why was Heden chosen for this mission? Who killed the knight and why? Why won't anyone talk to him? As the Green Order awaits Heden's final judgement, he finds his morality, perspective, and sense of self are each challenged and then destroyed.
Perhaps nothing, even right and wrong, can survive in the haunted wood.
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2 primary booksRatcatchers is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Matthew Colville.
Thief
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This book was very obviously written by a man. There we 3 female characters that spoke for more than 2 chapters. One these 3, one was a 13/14 year old whore, another was a squire he stood naked trying to fuck Heden. The last stood naked as she went up in flames. There is obviously a theme here. It also seems that every conversation Heden has with a woman results in him trying to figures her out and him ending up confused. It is mention that Heden saw them as puzzles and not as people, he then last saw them as people in some weird ???wise??? realisation. However every interaction Heden has with a man results in some weird mutual understanding of ???aggression and respect???. He even meets a fucking saint and all he can do is look at her legs. Even the narration is sexist. I think I have read the word ???men??? meaning ???people??? about 50 times in total. Beyond the blatant sexism, disregard, disrespect and objectification of women throughout the entire book, it isn???t even a good story.
The motivation of almost every character in the whole book makes no sense to me and is never really explained. All the battles described we???re hugely outbalanced by this way to OP weapon called ???Starkiller???. Yet still every knight, who are far better trained and more powerful them him, dies and Heden lives. He is meant to be this extremely wise character, but saying some vague quote isn???t an answer to a question. Its just stupid. Many crisis have come by and Heden just solves them last minute with one word. Which he then conveniently forgets until the next last minute moment. Talk about Deus Ex Machina. All of this is honestly just bad writing.
Not to mention that the book was just plain boring too. He went on way to long in almost every scene. Half way through the book nothing has happened and then the ???action??? starts and its just 30 pages of nonsensical fighting. I found myself glancing at the page numbers so many times, thinking when does it fucking stop.
What a great book. There's a nice ramp up to figuring out who Heden is and the ending sets the rest of the series up nicely for what's to come. Can't wait to dive into Thief.
Starts up Witcher like, which felt great, then goes full Green Knight, which could have been good... but ends up boring, with endless not-so-good dialogues, weirdely inconsistent MC, way too little of anything else except dialogues (feels much like a theatrical play, actually) and annoying/ forced not revealing any hint for the mystery, just in order to make the novel exceedingly long. Good potential, but quite badly wasted opportunity. A pity...
