Personally I loved the first book and I therefore launched optimistic in this sequel! But I did not find the interest and previous force. With this volume the author develops better his world and into some detail that is relatively easy to access compared to the same all of Hobb. As against the main frame of the narrative is set aside or at least advance rather slowly or not as quickly as in Volume 1. The speed of the action and the sequence of breathtaking trigger events left me breathless in book 1 while at the end of this series I remain completely on my hunger. Strangely so I did not go into the book, including the fault has a frantic repetition of sexual behavior which is funny at first but each chapter is really starting to annoy! The gore becomes so habitual that it does not touch, the characters die so quickly that it is nothing more to retain their name. (It was already the particuliarity 1 but here we exceed the limit may be too) really have the impression of being in a reading teen far from Gemmell strength to have virgin hero thinking about sex every woman he meets, it is difficult subsequently to identify a deadly assassins or kings .... The last sentence while having fun brings back the book of classic fantasy and removed I find specificity cruel to the author. I was very much disappointed with this volume or nothing has been up to my expectations, I hope much better in the last book ...
