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Review title: Promising beginning and middle let down by the ending
Product review: Just like its predecessor, Days of Bitter Strength throws away an interesting first three quarters with the most preposterous, ill thought out and badly executed ending. One gets the feeling that Wingrove was working to a deadline leaving him with thirty minutes to write a hundred pages. Characters behave in a way that is totally alien to the way that they had been presented thus far (Li Yuan, in particular, whose fall into dotage is ridiculous)And anyway, has anybody counted the number of times characters 'shudder' in Wingrove's series? The whole thing seems to be written by someone with real talent who simply cannot be bothered to write more than one draft. Which is a real shame, because if ever a series had real potential it is this one (and I thought the first three were really good...)
