59th book of 2019.
I liked the two main characters Iad and Tane, didn’t really like the secondary characters, and didn’t like the plot.
Throughout the entire book, the plot felt like special effects with the wrong lighting and color. The rules of the magic seemed arbitrary, the politics of the kingdom felt simplified, and the religious reconciliations played out in a wish-fulfillment scenario of world peace. Maybe it just felt like things tied up too neatly in the end, and maybe I’m just too used to fantasy like George RR Martin such that other things start to feel fake.