The Traitor God (Age of Tyranny #1) : Book Review

I will say this was a decent enough book, that just never hit the mark for me. Whether it was the world building, or characters, or story, or the writing style. Nothing really grabbed me and made me love the book. Which in the end I guess it kinda disappointing, I was hoping to find something more in this book.

Part of the issue I had was with the way the world was built and written, lots of new places and people and concepts and similar. So much essentially exposition is dumped on the reader constantly, but it never feels like things are built up well enough for you to really understand it. Nor care about why these people or places are important or mean anything at all. So by the end, I wasn’t engrossed in this world or the character with-in it.

I can’t say the characters ever really stuck with me, and they changed far too often. You get introduced to new people who you think might be important, and than they disappear from the story, only to show up again to assist the main character and than disappear again. Never learning more about them or getting closer to them, or developing any attachment to them. Meanwhile the main character never impressed me, his abilities aren’t well demonstrated and his character development is rough. You get the feeling you are supposed to already know this character and his motivations from the past, but of course you don’t.

Now for the actual writing style and story flow, well it is easy enough to read. But it does feel disjointed and confusing at times. You quickly move between places or between different states the main character is in. While it all technically works, and you can figure out what is happening in the story, it just feels a bit clumsy and rough.

So yea, decent enough average book. But never does anything to rise above that mark for me.