The Vagrant by Peter Newman

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other.

I felt things when I finish the book.

The good: poetic, melancholic, original background, very dark, solid world-building, interesting interaction between the antagonists. Very good start (first 25%), extremely good ending (last 25%).
The bad: somewhat simplistic, somewhat YA, over-ambiguous at times, over-Christian (forgive thy enemy... even when it is a bad idea), sluggish, even boring middle (50%), underdeveloped main character, too easily to defeat archenemies.
Liked the goat, though.
Enjoyed enough to read the sequel, but only moderately looking forward to it.

Initially I really wasnt that impressed with the book as it was very slow starting off. I persevered and things got a LOT better. The writing style of Peter Newman really appealed to me on these books and I am very happy that I continued on with this book!