Title: Not worth the time...
Product review: Diplomacy of Wolves managed to achieve many of the things I hate about fantasy novels. First, we had brutality masquerading as "reality"...The lurid details were merely disgusting; the author did not match this level of detail when describing scenes of beauty, friendship, or heroism. Secondly, the characters were stereotypical fantasy types: the earnest, beautiful young diplomat, the rogue captain, the bumbling fool who tries to flee the action but ends up in its midst. Thanks, I'll just pop in my Star Wars tape. And finally, we had the story stop right in the middle of the action! The best fantasy writers manage to conclude part of the action, while leaving enough strands of the plot to carry the reader to the next books in the trilogy...
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