I have way too many books to consume these days. A thousand page book needs to really justify the time I’m going to put into it, and this just wasn’t doing anything I was interested in, though I did like the prose and thought it had good flow, overall. I don’t think it had gotten to introduce a theme, not much had happened after 3 hours of listening time, and it feels like another chonker fantasy book that, with maybe no exceptions I’ve yet to experience?, continue to feel self indulgent to the point of being masturbatory.

I just have way too many books to read. It’s becoming clear that epic fantasy probably just isn’t to my taste.