Ech, bleah. What started out as a decent fantasy quest adventure has turned into a tedious bit of proselytizing and a limp romance between two characters who seem to have nothing in common other than having gone on the adventure together. I don't like being lectured by authors about the nature of faith (especially when it's clear that there's a not-so-veiled conversion narrative aimed at the reader), and I don't like contrived plots that pair up characters just because they're heroes of opposite gender.

I especially don't like the way that it obvious that the author thinks that just because the male hero is attracted to the female hero, she must eventually accept that he's her One True Love... even though it's clear her character really isn't interested in any sort of relationship at all, and that his character is besotted only with a fantasy and shows little understanding or respect for her as a person. (Which, perhaps, is not surprising, given how weakly developed her character is.)

I don't normally stop reading a series before the end of the last book, and it is even more rare that I'd stop before the end of a book midseries. But I'm doing that with this one; I just can't take it any more. ( )

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