Child of a Mad God

I have so much in the way of mixed feelings about this book.

The main characters have excellent situational potential. The world contains characters and peoples with different backgrounds and reasons for them. There is interesting magic and danger. There are many events X people that move the plot. So much good here.

Unfortunately, there are repeated thoughts and phrases. Characters come to the same or the cusp of the same realization multiple times. There is violence and rape for the sake of violence and rape. There are oddities that don't seem to have a reason (such as the shape of the lake tribe heads) that comes up again and again. A bunch of little things bring the reader to mind that you are indeed reading a story and no longer immersed.

I wanted this book to be better. I'm not sure if I'll read the rest of the series.