Lee
This is my fourth Buehlman book and I feel like I have not loved any of his third acts yet. He does an excellent job with building ragtag team dynamics and setting the atmosphere, but I just don't know why I always gradually lose interest as we get in sight of the finish line. I've actually read halfway through this book already two years ago, but decide that it was so long ago, I should just restart. Sure the Berserk x Souls vibes are present (although I'd say more Bloodborne if set during the 14th century black death and crusades), but something about his climaxes just don't hit as hard as you'd expect given the brutality and dark historical fiction horror he conjures. It's totally a me thing, but given how I've felt a similar disappointment in emotion in the final act of just about all his books, perhaps it's a narrative arc issue. Contrary to word of mouth, I think of what I've read, Lesser Dead might be my fave of his.
This is my fourth Buehlman book and I feel like I have not loved any of his third acts yet. He does an excellent job with building ragtag team dynamics and setting the atmosphere, but I just don't know why I always gradually lose interest as we get in sight of the finish line. I've actually read halfway through this book already two years ago, but decide that it was so long ago, I should just restart. Sure the Berserk x Souls vibes are present (although I'd say more Bloodborne if set during the 14th century black death and crusades), but something about his climaxes just don't hit as hard as you'd expect given the brutality and dark historical fiction horror he conjures. It's totally a me thing, but given how I've felt a similar disappointment in emotion in the final act of just about all his books, perhaps it's a narrative arc issue. Contrary to word of mouth, I think of what I've read, Lesser Dead might be my fave of his.