2023 book 228

 Glenda Larke's The Last Stormlord

Larke's Tangled Lands was one of my favorite books of the year, and here I am finally getting around to another book by her. I didn’t like this one as much. It’s very slow and dark (more than one man threatens to rape the young girl who is a POV character, there's murder, torture, lots of other stuff too) and I almost put it down more than once, but there was always some character or plot point I was curious about. Things improve in the second half as some of the characters finally start to get together and by the end I was actually pretty on board, until the very last scene which had me rolling my eyes. But I guess I’ll keep going with this series bc I am invested in some of the characters. B.