Sorry to hear that, but if it's not your cuppa, it's not your cuppa. I confess I can be somewhat blinkered when I read - I get so absorbed in the book that weaknesses such as you described tend to pass me by - beyond a certain "this could really do with picking up" type feeling. Which I seem to recall I did feel with that book. The same was true in the second book, for me at least: slow starting but sprint-finish.
And if you didn't like the first one, I think you'd find the same problems with the second. I didn't like the early plot-line at all.
Yeah, I remember that, and wasn't overly impressed. Then again, I measure every torture scene against the Richard/Denna scene in Wizard's First Rule. As yet, nothing's matched it.
