Sheepfarmer's Daughter

I loved the beginning but it got sooooooo slow at the end 😩😬

Quit about a quarter in.
Here is the thing, I found this book incredibly boring. The beginning sold me on Paks becoming someone absolutely amazing. How did I think that happens? The fantasy novel way, of course, with her gong through amazing adventures, excitement, fantastic feats, becoming love and respected by the people around her for showing values worth it.
We have nothing like that. The events are not very monumental or even interesting, but boy, do we get to learn about new recruits doing basic, repetitive things. Sure, learning something IS like that. My life s like. Do I want to spend hours upon hours reading about the same sort of boring ass crap? No. The prose doesn't make it interesting either, because it's just some sort of clinical description of meaningless and boring things happening. There is just... so much nothing, talking about “and this person went there and then I handed him this object and then he ate his dinner”, just blabbering about NOTHING.
This is made even worse by the characters. Their names all sound the same and their personalities aren't much different either. We are supposed to feel time is passing and still no development happen on that front. They don't feel like comrades or friends, just people who arrived 2 days ago and are friendly to each other, but no even a little attached. Paks is the same. She has no personality, she is absolutely blank and we know nothing about her motivations or anything.

Maybe this is a classic and maybe I will try again later, but right now I'm way too bored.

it was enjoyable but i didn't get drawn into the characters much. I'm still going to read the sequel though!