Priest
2010 • 471 pages

Ratings8

Average rating3.8

15

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. 

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