FANTASY BOOKS WORTH THE PAGE COUNT ~ long book recs

you just watch Valen grow and you watch the boys around him grow into men and you feel very connected to them

you get more going on in the next one you also get more perspectives in the next one so you do have quite a few characters that you're following but everybody's so engaging every plot line is really interesting

I think that this is epic fantasy at its finest you get a cast of characters I found all of their plot lines interesting they're all pretty different their personalities are all different

the first book especially I just thought was masterfully done I thought the pacing was phenomenal and there's not a ton that happens there's really not a lot of plot pushing the book forward it's a lot of just following these characters getting to know them

I do have some criticisms about the pacing they're not necessarily that the book is not that it's too long it's that I'm like oh I actually feel like we could have done more with it

it's just so interesting it's so different I would say that this is definitely a genre Bender because some of the reveals and some of the things within the world do not necessarily feel very fantasy-like

I think the characterization in this is exceptional I do think that it is very slow it took me a long time to get through this book just because there's not a whole lot that happens

I was so captivated by the world I was really interested in the characters and I just liked the way that John Gwen wrote this setting