The Dragon's Path

This is a typical example of the kind of book I despise. Well written, medieval fantasy BUT incredibly boring. I find Game of Thrones, which I didn't love, to be the very minimum a book of this kind must be. You want to write an “ordinary” story, talking about trivial events in day to day life, with many protagonists, an pacing so slow it seems the plot is inexistent, be good at it. Stephen King, GRRM, Anne Rice. All good examples.

The book starts with a prologue (sigh), following the same formula: the most interesting part of the book, completely unreleted to the following chapters.

The first chapter is about one of these protagonists, Marcus. He is an ex soldier, trying to avoid being enlisted in an army he didn't care for. So he is trying to convince a theater company to disguise themselves as soldiers, in order no to be attacked in the forest by bandits, and leave the city as a caravan.

The next chapters introduce the next protagonist, aaaand I've seen where this is going. All characters, no story. So I stopped.

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