Theft of Swords

The book didn't start awful. Descent protagonists and writing, promising plot.

A couple of thieves are framed for the murder of the king. While arrested in the dungeon, awaiting their execution, they are visited by the Prince, who describes how he plans to torture them to death. After that, their visited by the Princess, who makes a deal with them: their freedom for the promise of taking her brother north, in order to keep him safe from the ones who murdered the king and also to talk to someone special.

With their new unexpected companion always bickering, they travel to find to find the secret prison which harbors this mysterious man their supost to meet. In the way they stop to rest in a monastery. A monk takes them in and shows them a room for the night. When morning comes they find out that the monastery had been burned out, and the monk is somewhat of a savant, and is oblivious to the fact that he would dir of starvation if he choose to remain there.

The monk provides some clues to their quest, and join them in the adventure. Arriving at the place, we get a LotR rip off mountain door scene, and after a while, they meet the wizard they were send to find, one who has been imprisoned and kep alive though magic for nearly a thousand years.

The man has his demands before agreeing to provide them with the information they seek. They agree to help the man, who was arrested for having supposedly destroyed the realm 900 years.

With the information they need to restore order in the realm, clear their names and get a handsome reward, they go back to the king's castle. But in the way, the Prince finds out his uncle is to blame, and is trying to kill him as well. So they decide to ask for the help of someone who was loyal to the dead King, and know would help them with his army.

And now the come the part I stopped reading. The story wasn't that great, but passable so far. And then the conspirators who murdered the King get together and start spitting out their agenda. At this point the exposition goes out the window, and I couldn't bare it anymore. The plot felt too common, and nothing else (interesting characters, promise of great events to happen, intelligent deeds, etc) made it worth to keep reading.

At best this was just too vanilla for me.

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