The Burning God

Well, this last book was not great. I went from really liking the first book to being mildly enthusiastic about the second to barely finishing this third novel. The first third of the book was a real slog, I almost quit, but I persevered and fortunately the author had a brand larger story in mind that was interesting to see through.

The biggest problem is that Rin, the main character, is just really unappealing. She's a rage-fueled genocidal monster. But then she's also our sympathetic protagonist. But only sort of, she's really kind of an awful person. The author is aware of all this, and writes it so, but instead of being intriguingr or tragic I found myself just fully alienated. She does finally write a redemption of sort for Rin at the end but it felt pretty shallow, unearned.

Oddly it was Kitay who ended up being the most interesting character to me. But he's not really fleshed out, just a sort of victim / enabler of Rin's.