The Silverblood Promise

The Silverblood Promise

2024 • 608 pages

Ratings34

Average rating3.7

15

Well enough written but the main character being an immature child of a grown man made it almost unreadable. The supposed protagonist invokes feelings of contempt in the reader when as a man of almost 30 years old they constantly show less emotional maturity than a 12 year old boy. Not sure what the author is trying to invoke in the reader with the main characters constant self pity, always making emotionally charged bad decisions, and always yelling irrationally at other characters who are trying to talk sense into him then ignoring their sound advice. Even worse is the guy constantly is getting other people hurt or killed as a result of their emotional immaturity and the author frames this all as a virtue. Even worse is the man is a complete coward and the author frames this cowardist as virtuous.

Anyway... I imagine the author shares attributes with their protagonist because it's the only explanation for how they could write such a character then frame them as a virtuous protagonist. It would have been different if the main characters behavior was framed differently but it wasn't and as such made for a difficult read.