Brent Weeks depicts a world of corruption, poverty, compromised and sadism, but the book begins by depicting the integrity of the Duke Gyre Regnus refusing to contest by arms to power the future King Aleine he knows catastrophic. This righteousness from the Dukes of Gyre (father or son) is also such that it makes them unable to grasp the political reality (or even love) the time.
You also established a kingdom, its laws, its army and police, any ineffective it may be, which tolerates an extremely powerful underworld (Sa'kagé) in the middle of its capital which controls the most powerful assassins who are, the wetboys (sorry translating piss panties is more qu'erronée, it is outrageous. The closest would be killer to pledge). Each realm seems indeed produce a particular type of magicians (excluding any other, why?), And the kingdom of Cenaria are the wetboys who these magicians. Their talent makes them superhuman, faster, stronger, more powerful than others and above all capable of the most extreme dissimulation. Each of them is capable of killing anyone, anytime, anywhere, regardless of the defenses. What King, what nobility could therefore tolerate this?
And then you have the kingdom of Khalidor which everyone knows the power which everyone expects the invasion but that takes 10 years to do so for reasons probably terribly complex but involve sending in the cesspool of Cenaria one of the heirs of Khalidor?
As for the characters they are certainly attractive, colorful, such as the famous wetboy Durzo Blint that constantly says that life is meaningless and should never focus but works throughout the novel to the example of the opposite! In fact the main hero of this story (Durzo, Momma K, Azoth and Jarl) are supposed to be finished bastards to survive in this poisonous environment, but they prove to be, scraping a little hero in the traditional sense, noble , courageous and even magnets! I have nothing against a little gray characters, instead, but then the darkness like a bit of black paint on the characters.
Also talking about the plot, the best of them seem written by the characters themselves, authors sometimes tell their stories so they escape the characters incarnated. It's not really the case here, unlikely or implausible events (such as the appearance of friendship between Logan and Azoth or the rocker love / hatred between Ashdod and incessant Durzo) just appear necessary for the proper conduct of the history.
Yet I read to the end, perhaps this is due to the continuous action that makes these inconsistencies are faded into the background. It is true that towards the end I held no longer much of the explanations of each other and only had the BASTOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ....!
I will not read but I will follow after the next round of this author.
Read in English.
. (Note: the question posed by the site that houses all these comments is whether you found this review helpful This is not to say whether you agree with the opinion of the commentator It is I have perhaps not as much appreciated that novel yourself. That does not mean that the flaws I have identified do not exist, just that they have not affected you, we all have a weakness for a particular type of novel that allows us to go over some imperfections. It seems to me important that these defects are recorded so that each reader can wonder whether these are bearable to him or not.)