2023/174: Paladin's Faith — T Kingfisher

2023/174: Paladin's Faith — T Kingfisher

There was supposedly a whole language to fan signals and where you carried it and how you fluttered it and where your gaze went while so fluttering. Wren had no idea how you learned that language. Her fan had bluntly pointed wooden handles and she was fairly certain that if she held it right, she could jam the closed fan into someone’s eye socket with enough force to break through to the brain. [loc. 2171]

I preordered this, and read it within a day of it appearing on my Kindle: but I confess I was disappointed, and it's taken me a while to work out why.

It would have helped immensely if I'd reread the previous books in the series: Paladin's Grace, Paladin's Strength, and Paladin's Hope. While not a direct continuation, several of the characters in Faith have appeared, with greater or lesser agency, in the previous novels: I could also have done with a refresher on the world of the White Rat, especially as I have been labouring under a misconception regarding the connection between Swordheart and the Paladin series. And finally, the 'it's just me' rationale: I was overloaded with other stuff and found myself reading whole pages (at least!) without retaining much.( Read more... )