Brace yourself then as it's the worst out of all the books so far I'm afraid.
Which is not the same as saying it's a bad book: it's still better than 80% of the stuff listed in the Epic Fantasy thread for instance. The problem is that the book before it was so good it's difficult to see how it could possibly have measured up. Especially when you consider that it is meant to have a slower pace then the first three (and does).
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