Kevin's Reviews > The Forgotten Faithful

I gave the first book a lot of leeway, and forced myself through many chapters. But I can't do the same with book two.

The book is reading like it's completely different characters.
The main protagonist of book one has someone talking down to him, using his own resources, in his own tower, and he is behaving like a teenager would. Getting angry and talking utter foolishness. Is this the same killer from book one? Also when did the protagonist become so super chummy with the panther-man and dwarf?

I can't take this anymore, I will skim for another chapter or two, and if nothing has improved I'm dropping the book and the author. It's a shame, I would have liked to see what the slave brother would have done.

It seems the author ran out of things to write, and wanted to fill as many pages like book one, so he wrote utter nonsense.

I don't even know why I picked up book two. I should have listened to the warning signs.
I tried, but I can't do this any longer. I pushed my way through a quarter of this book with the protagonist's horrible dialogue and the change in character, and shift of urgency of the first book.

I will now skip parts that start to get annoying until the book is done.

No matter what, this is going to be a one star when complete. The things I expected from how book one ended that made me pick up book two was not given (at least not in the lengthy chapters I read so far).

I could have looked past the protagonist if there was a good story, but I can't look past all these added characters, boring story, and the protagonist not killing rapist and murderers that tried to kill him because of "muh earth laws".

It's like we have a different person from book one.
Book one would not have suffered a kid diddler, yet this one is finding excuses not to kill, and blaming it on an "amplifying emotional bond".
The one that was trying to build up his skills and make himself stronger, is instead playing house.
It's like the author read that civilization building is popular when he was nearly finished with book one, and tried to integrate it into book two.

There is nothing I hate more than an incompetent protagonist. He let two groups of people that were hostile to him, loyal to his enemies, and knew of his defenses, people, and resources to go scott free, he even armed them to get a chance at survival. I'm 100% sure this will come back to bite the protagonist.

This is just bad writing. I'm not picking up any sequels, nor do I think I will read anything else by the author.
He had a great story to tell that was interesting, but he flubbed its' implementation and execution somewhere. Too many characters too fast. The author should have spent sometime strengthening the protagonist. At least it's a single POV. I think that's why I'm able to push through.

I finished everything without skipping anything. After putting myself through that, I don't want to read anything else from the author. I'm also sure the stupidity of letting those men that tried to kill him go will come back to bite him.

1/5 Stars