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This book is 90% worldbuilding and backstory infodumps. If that's your thing, enjoy. If you're not into sitting through pages and pages and pages of contextless political opining from characters we haven't even been given a chance to care about, pass. Authors like Robin Hobb pull this sort of epic fantasy political intrigue off by presenting it gradually through the lens of fully fleshed-out characters whose lives and opinions the reader is invested in. This book does not. I was bored. I tried not to be, because I'd heard there were lesbians, but even the draw of the gay was not enough to keep me here in the end. I started skimming at 20% and DNFed about halfway through. Life is just too short, my friends P.S. I've seen some complaints about the prose being too "complex." That's not the case. There is nothing special about the prose. If there were, it might have persuaded me to put my irritation aside for a little longer, but alas.