Ahoy there mateys! I heard great things about this grimdark trilogy and decided to give it a whirl. Sadly I abandoned ship 2/3 of the way through book one. Part of this was the formatting of the ebook I was reading where the end of sentences kept getting chopped off. But at first I wasn't letting it stop me. But really, in the end, the problem was that I kept putting it down and not having the urge to pick it back up. I liked some of the concepts of the books and several characters but the story felt disjointed. The bad guys were flat. The plot felt oversimplified. There were too many point of views. And the world building did not make sense. Not for me. Moving on. Arrrr!