A Torch Against the Night

I am struggling to get through this. People are dying left and right, there is no shock value to it anymore. When the Commandant ‘dramatically' kills a whole bunch of people right in front of Helene, when Elias is forced to witness the prison warden torture some random kid, it's not shocking, it's only a couple of examples in a long line of brutality from the Empire's forces. In the first book of this trilogy Lila's grandparents are casually murdered in front of her, and the violence continues unabated, to the point that I am increasing the speed of my audiobook to just get through it, and hopefully get back to the narrative. It's like Game of Thrones levels of violence.

This one is not for me.

The narration is excellent, though the accents chosen for different characters was perplexing.