An Ancient Evil

It is also clear ??? and quite early on in this novel, at that ??? that this romantic subplot serves no other purpose than to create an unnecessary rivalry between Godfrey and Alexander, perhaps in some misguided attempt to create conflict to further character development. I truly wish that was not the case though, because there are so many other ways to generate conflict between those two characters. One example is that Godfrey is a war-hardened knight, whereas Alexander is an intellectual scholar. That difference alone could be mined for so much potential conflict and character growth, especially when it comes to trying to solve the mystery at the heart of this novel, that I do not understand why the author had to resort to some tawdry romantic subplot in order to achieve a goal that could have been attained in other ways.

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