Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book is a mess I resent this book. I don't even hate it. I resent it. Very good set up. . .we've got two narrators telling stories about the main character. One of a modest thief who ends up being "more than he seems". Classic story of destiny that we're all familiar with in Fantasy. The other story about the same boy sold into slavery to a race of people who possess magical abilities. But, at some point, the author just loses the thread. It's difficult to even describe because of how poorly written and explained it all is. . .the main character, Khirin, is his own grandfather, and his father is really his brother, but a part of someone's soul is in someone's necklace and the rest of their soul is wandering around a forest in the domain of the death goddess, where we also see ONE OF THE EIGHT who has been imprisoned, and OMG, he opened his eyes, and now everyone is dead but NOT REALLY because the goddess of death can just bring you back if she wants, or you can kill a dragon in the real world, and use half his heart to put yourself back together in the spirit world, but wait. . .I haven't even talked about the demons who feed on fire -- or is it souls -- and they can mimic people, and read minds, and mentally torture you, and it's totally unclear how much power they have, and oh yeah, there are eight Royal houses? Why? I don't know, but apparently they all have rockin' new years eve parties!!!! Awesome. Oh, I haven't had a shipwreck yet. Let's put that in. Here's an arena battle between two magicians where the one guy's magic just makes the other guy fall over a couple times. And there are eight necklaces and the one in the book seems really important, and I'm not sure why, and they can't be destroyed, except some can because that's a different kind of necklace, and some races seem vaguely ethnic, and some seems blonde, and where you're from doesn't seem to matter anyway because everyone's soul just winds up in a different body. What a total mess this book is. Needed a good editor. Needed a rewrite. Doesn't need a sequel. Doesn't need fandom. Wow.