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Title: The Rite
Series: Forgotten Realms: The Year of Rogue Dragons #2
Author: Richard Lee Byers
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 352/Abandoned
Format: Digital Edition
Title: The Rite
Series: Forgotten Realms: The Year of Rogue Dragons #2
Author: Richard Lee Byers
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 352/Abandoned
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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More
and more dragons go rogue and the various characters attempt to
figure out what the badguy Sammaster has done by backtracking him.
One group to a mystic monastery currently under siege by dragons and
another group to a some wizards who are working on Sammaster's notes.
DNF'd
at 30%
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My
Thoughts:
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My first DNF of the year. Man, I was bored with this story. There are
several factors leading into that though.
First, I have had a string of 4star books since the beginning of the
year. My standards were thus higher.
Second, I was on the fence about Forgotten Realms the whole of
last year and kept giving them chance after chance. This year, No
More Mr Nice Guy.
Third, I don't want to keep on eating badly cooked literary
mac-n-cheese where I KNOW that half the stuff is half-baked.
Finally, work was physically brutal this week and I ended up taking
today off because of how hard Monday-Thursday had gone. Hiking an
hour using showshoes, carrying 60lbs of equipment, shovelling out
traverse stations all day, breaking trail, pulling a sled filled with
200lbs of equipment during the day, then ending the day by hiking an
hour out with 60lbs of equipment again.
If I had read this last year, I probably would have given it 2.5stars
and struggled through the final book in the trilogy. Not this year. I
am done with this book and this trilogy and the whole Forgotten
Realms series. It is written for a completely different target
audience than me and I need to stop trying to shoehorn myself into
that demographic. Objectively, it was the same as the first book, but
I just don't have the patience to deal with it anymore.
I have enough books on my Oasis and in Calibre to last me 2 years.
That's if I don't add a single thing. So why should I persist in
adding books that have an extremely high chance of being lower than
3stars? Not worth it.
★☆☆☆☆
