The Crown's Game

I would like to start by saying I don't hate this book. It was an enjoyable enough read, but it was riddled with trope after cheesy trope, and everything was over explained it felt like. The rule “show don't tell” I realize doesn't always apply, and there are times when it's okay to tell what's happening, but this books was different. It told me everything, there was zero room for me to interpret anything because it was spelled out in front of me. And the language was so weird, some sentences were so bright and colorful and other were drab and boring, the style felt clunky and it didn't fit well together, some whole chapter you tell were the ones the author really really wanted to write, the others were well half hearted it felt like. And world building was lackluster, and the characters needed a hell of a lot more fleshing out, I feel like I didn't really even know them until I was 3/4 of the way through the book. However I an giving it a 3/5 because the 1/4 of the book was interesting enough story itself was interesting enough that I finished the book and will even read the second one. It just won't go on my list of “best books ever”