{"id":1717,"date":"2019-10-23T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:24:18","slug":"book-the-skull-throne-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/23\/book-the-skull-throne-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Skull Throne (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Skull Throne<\/strong><\/span>
\nYear: 2015
\nAuthor: Peter V. Brett
\nLength: 1,509 minutes \/ 25.15 hours<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think a book with (what I assume is) Renna Bales (nee Tanner) on the cover would follow her and the group of people she\u2019s traveling with. You\u2019d think a book titled \u201cThe Skull Throne\u201d would spend a lot of time addressing the now-empty Skull Throne. Instead, we only got brief mentions of these two sub-plots. While I\u2019m happy that the latter didn\u2019t have many pages dedicated to it, I\u2019m disappointed that the former was addressed for only a few scant sections at the beginning and end. Instead, the majority of this book spent time in places that didn\u2019t advance the overall story at all.<\/p>\n

Having read all the books (and the \u201c3.5\u201d novella) up until now, my concerns that arose during Messenger\u2019s Legacy<\/em><\/a> seem to have materialized. Sure, I do enjoy following the three main characters from The Warded Man<\/em><\/a>, but there were certainly moments where I thought I was reading something from the Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> series than The Demon Cycle<\/em> series. This might be high praise for some, but I felt George R.R. Martin\u2019s series was a little bloated and too concerned with relationship drama than actual dragons.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I\u2019m still having trouble caring about the Krasians. The fact that there are so many terms and titles for everyday things and people makes it confusing to follow at times. I understand its origins in Middle-eastern culture, but at some point, it goes too far (xkcd had a comic about the number of made-up words in a fantasy book reducing its quality<\/a>). The culture clash between the Krasians and everyone else has persisted for three books now, and it\u2019s quite tiring to keep highlighting how different and backward their thinking it sometimes. I can only hope we get to see some demon battles in The Core<\/em> since this book left me unsatisfied.<\/p>\n

A weak link that could have spent more time on more exciting subplots, I give The Skull Throne<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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