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250 pages in and I'm done. The book is so poorly written it is all but unreadable. Here's a sample: "Crokus shared something of the tower's imagined sardonic reserve for the pretense so rife in Majesty Hall, an emotion of his uncle's that had seeped into the lad over the years." Huh? Say that twice fast. What is this sentence even about? The whole book is like this. It's beyond me how anybody can read thousands of pages of this stuff. The writing (and reading!) would be greatly improved simply by crossing out every adjective and simile. Not to mention each and every instance of "imagined sardonic reserve".