Dead Man Stalking

Fuck it. The book was good. It had problems, and I'm going to list them, but it kept me coming back each night and I stayed up till 6 am to read it when I had work at 9 am. So there's no way it's sub 4 stars. I sometimes refresh ratings after the wind of nostalgia blows, so I might bump this later.

The problems:
1. Too many proper nouns introduced at the same time at the beginning. I only finally understood many of them at the end. I don't like over explaining either, but you can work it in somehow. Like Goat. Huh? Yeah I get it now, and I sort of got it when it was introduced, but I was mildly annoyed I never got a proper explanation.
2. Weird names. Madoc. Took (yeah I get this one, but still), Pally, Quick (fucking Quick?), Lawrence (there's nothing wrong with it, it's just very old fashioned idk). There was Kit and Tac too. I don't even remember who Tac is supposed to be again.
3. I saw things before Took. The ending betrayal by a certain woman we saw early on. It was pretty obvious from what she was saying. But Took missed it. West too.
4. I wish we could find out who took Took. I thought West might have something to do with it, but we don't find out for sure. Plenty of mysteries left. It's not bad, it's supposed to be a series. But where the fuck is book 2?
5. I like that Madoc guaranteed the death of a certain man. I hope the others died too. If they didn't, I'll have a problem with it. But like, whatever, it's a common plot device.
6. The lore was dropped in here and there. I can't quite understand why the boyars would surrender themselves to suffer and why they still have power even though they're imprisoned.
7. The way the mystery came together. Even when they were explaining it, I still didn't understand, until after the last showdown.
8. Wtf is that cat?

The awesome:
1. That shadows bar fight ahhhhh. Madoc ilysm. Heck, Took too.
2. Paladin. I want more of this man. Like I want to see this man in action. Pally makes him sound so uncool. Din would've been cooler or something.
3. Took is so mysterious. Why did he turn even with his bloodline? What's going on with his anger? (Madoc has this too but he doesn't black out) What did Anderson mean? Where tf is book 2???

The WTF:
1. The bloody sex scenes. No I don't mean that as a swear word. I mean that actual blood was involved. I...you do you T A Moore. You absolutely do you.

Extra points for not making me annoyed with the relationship. There was no does he does he not. Took knew how Madoc felt. Took had issues to work through. They started slow, relatively. Took tried. Madoc loved. Took loved in the end. Sweet.