The Last Ranger

This is the second novel by JDL Rosell that I have read, and he seems to write a certain kind of character with severe trust and anger management issues. These type of characters can be a frustrating read - they tend to make obviously dumb decisions which leave you screaming at the page in annoyance. The Last Ranger definitely suffers from this, and although the reason for the character being this way is at least reasonably well developed it does get a bit tiresome after a while.

Character gripes aside, this is an interestingly realized world. There is fascinating underlying mythology which is brought through, with an intriguing array of non-standard fantasy races. There is some clever politicking and plot that drives forwards at a good pace keeping you interested throughout.

And it does appear the character development is there to hopefully move beyond the aspects that annoyed me moving into the later books in this series, so at this point I am definitely open to continuing.