There’s nothing worse than finishing a book and feeling like it was a waste of time, especially if it's over 800 pages long and took five days to slog through.

The good moments from The Book of Azrael that sparked a little hope in this series were sorely missing from The Throne of Broken Gods. I know I read an ARC, but I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that felt so unedited in my life. There are maybe five things of importance in this book buried under hundreds of pages of inane and useless information. I’m not sure if Nicole is trying and failing to make the world bigger and more complex or if my current reading slump is worse than I thought, but I was not invested in almost anything that happened.

I strongly believe that the interesting and important parts of these two books could have been edited down into one very exciting and compelling book. By making it two and adding so much unnecessary exposition, I’m left here wondering why I’ve read almost 1700 pages with so little payoff. I want to like this series and these characters, but I can’t put myself through any more of this.