Golden Son

Not to suggest I didn’t enjoy the story and writing, buuuuuut…. between the first career setback for Darrow and the climactic celebration, I kept screaming at the characters, “Are you all idiots? Do you learn nothing?”. Especially during the denouement. A distrustful father and untrusting partner allow the deceitful and dangerous villain to prepare a large gathering unfettered. The bad guys at the end commit the classic error even a middle school student would advise them against: don’t leave the hero alive. Kill him when you have the opportunity. I’m still going to read book three of the trilogy. I do care about four remaining characters and I would like to see some hot vengeance served up. Going to retire now to an unrelated novel, where the author doesn’t take their characters for idiots.