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Review title: I don't want to pity the characters....
Product review: ...but it seems like that is all there is left to do. I tore through the first two books in this series, but I am now left with a sense of continual pity and boredom with the characters. Are they are destined to be pummeled by Donaldson forever? Whereas I enjoy his concept of drama vs melodrama (in melodrama, you have a hero, the oppresed, and the oppressor; in drama you have the same characters but through the story they change their roles) the characters demonstrate their changes only through an ever increasing cruelty. While this can be interesting, it very soon becomes tedious and purposeless. 15 years after reading the "Lena" chapter of Lord Foul's Bane, I remember the scene vividly because it carried such a punch. In this book, the punches are numbing, and I fold. I've given up on the rest of the series and moved on.
