Title: Dull...
Review: I rarely don't finish a book that I paid good money for. I tried really hard with Paladins, slogging on well after I felt like quitting, but in the end I just couldn't take it. It just inches along at a terribly slow pace, the characters meandering around, crossing and recrossing their own paths without apparently making any headway or having much of anything interesting happen. Rosenberg keeps introducing pointless and uninteresting subplots and characters all over the place even as the overarching plot goes nowhere, and the whole thing steadily devolves into a confusing mess. Then suddenly the mystery they were trying to uncover is explained by a highly convenient villain who pops out of nowhere. The reveal was so random and underwhelming that I finally quit reading right then, at what was supposed to be right before the climax of the novel.What can I say? Don't bother.
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