Le Roi des cendres

I wanted to DNF this like five times throughout, but I kept on giving it the benefit of the doubt because on paper, the story is actually pretty interesting. And it's Raymond Feist! I have heard that name many times in the fantasy genre and this was the first time I ever read one of his.

Unfortunately I should have gone with my gut because the conflicts set up in this book don't even pay off here. The Hatu/Hava stuff, which wasn't even that exciting since Hatu kind of already knew anyway, is apparently saved for somewhere in the next books, so here the story just ends with some kind of other character-related cliffhanger that just made me roll my eyes. The character work in general just was very cookie cutter (also wtf at the sex thoughts every two seconds, I mean please calm down). The story itself wasn't much to write home about either. It is very much a ton of setup but nothing really so interesting that it's worth sticking out.