Relics of Ruin

The book is painful to read, even more so than the first book in the series. This author makes everything painfully melodramatic with each and every character curled into a ball crying in fear the entire time and insisting on self pity filled helplessness. It's painful to read and makes both the characters and story unbelievable. Real people aren't like that, no one would be able to function and society wouldn't function. Maybe a single character being an nonfunctional emotional wreck constantly wrapped into the fetal position would be believable but every single character being a self pity filled victim that insists on being helpless? Unbelievable and painful to read.