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He reminded me of a character straight out of Tolkein, but with less whimsy and personality.

Loth is a spoiled, naïve man who gets lucky a lot.

At the very, very end of the book, this contradiction is addressed in a powerful and frankly wonderful way. There is a glaring hole in his character in that his life’s mission is creating the elixir of life, but he doesn’t actually seem interested in eternal life.

Roos is a bad, cowardly personwho consistently makes bad, cowardly choices.

Unfortunately, for the first five hundred pages, here were my opinions of them: Niclays, Ead, Tané, Loth: only four, so you’d imagine I might become attached to at least one. They have character arcs that make sense.ĭespite the book’s famously immense length, I didn’t get enough time with any of the characters. I feel I should like many of the characters-they’re strong, mostly female, and complex.

It’s actually hard for me to put my finger on why I found Priory so hard to read. Ead shivered as the night welcomed her skin. They were honeycombs of secret places, fragile and intricate.