Title: Pointless
Product review: I like swashbuckling, and honor, and political intrigue, and all of that stuff. Sadly, this book lacks all of these.Alatriste is inconsistent -- a mercenary one moment, a hero the next. None of the political intrigue gels into anything interesting -- things happen, and we don't care why.The novel felt like the backstory for some larger work. There was a novelette worth of material in a short novel's worth of pages.
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