- #1
It's astonishing how a main heroine can start off so unpleasant, yet continually get worse and worse with each volume.This is the story of a man who does his best to survive while working as a s*ave for the people who took everyone and everything he ever cared about from him. No more, no less.I was going to write a long review about each aspect of the novel and why they're objectively flawed or weak, but the real issue is that there's no hope among the tragedy. There's no light at the end of the tunnel. The protagonist has no dreams for the future, and possesses nothing he wants to protect. Nothing good happens to him along the way. Or to anyone else. Novels don't need to be happy, but after a certain amount of chapters of unrelenting misery it just gets boring and tiring to read.The first volume or two were pretty interesting, though. The novel just needed any contrast at all to the grimdark, and it failed abjectly.
