I started quite frustrated. I wrote in the forum "I'm 50 pages in, and I'm not very enthusiastic. The plot is OK. The setting is fine. The characters are trope-ish, but I'm fine with that. My main problem is that the writing is amateurish and unsubtle. I'm resisting, but I'm thinking about cutting my losses and moving on."

Someone advised me to soldier on, and I did. It got better as I got into the story. Unfortunately, Week's unsubtle writing remained a problem for me, but the story was interesting, and I ended up enjoying it. I can't enthusiastically recommend it, but I enjoyed it enough to consider reading the next one to see how the story continues. ( )

addestramento di un sicario
invasione di un regno
artefatti magici ( )

The Way of Shadows was quite bad. The writing was poor, the plot was badly paced, the characters were all strangely misogynistic (which can work sometimes if you sell it in the context of the world, but he completely did not do that). By the end I was basically laboring to finish it, still without a solid grasp of all the words.

Future writers of fantasy, if you can flip to a page of your book and there are 10 words on it that you cant define ex-ante, the book is probably terrible.
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F/SF

This is my 2nd time thru this series. SUCH a good read... ( )