oh boy, that was rough

I'm quite confused about this story. It really deviated from the previous two stories.

I've come to realize that perhaps things are lost in translation. Before writing this review I had to see if I was missing something and other confused people posting their thoughts lead to one comment about how this had a different translator. Now, I had already been a bit confused about why goblins are goblins or other seemingly unnecessary and unclear variations or new words for common place fantasy races or whatnot. This book though, I think wound up being translated with whole descriptions of things left out. Or was it written that way?

I started this book with an inconsistent ability to listen. I wound up rewinding several times to find what I missed. Though I didn't miss anything. At one point they named a new race that I thought were centaurs (made up race name mix up!) but many MANY chapters later it's revealed their old generation elves. This is common in many of his books that he talks about something like we know what it is without getting a description. Frequent creatures of horror in this book often get under described until many scenes later where the physical description clearly feels like an afterthought.

This book also opens with and then continuously has the hero acting well out of character. *spoilers* He abandons the love of his life that two books build a strong relationship. He opens the story as a drunk for what takes half a book to hear why. He promptly reconciles with his wife after some good advice. Then he drops her after an affair. No rhyme or reason. Oh but she laments him at the end of the book.

There's also the fake comicbook style deaths. So many deaths are not actual deaths. This trivializes the previously emotional scenes.

I also pegged someone as a villain. They had him return after being positioned as a prisoner and then he dies a barely two sentence death. But comicbook return he ends up back and then he's a villain and then he's dead. This is the situation where the villain was totally capable of killing everyone at any moment. No need for a plot.

I also found the magic punk insert quite out of world. It'd be anachronistic if any of it was plausible.

Honestly the whole thing seemed poorly planned and without cadence.

I've seriously considered if I want to continue or not. I'll have to read reviews of the next book to see.

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