Douglas Dougherty

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This has to be one of the worst books I've ever read. The story flies around all over the place. The trials are easily over come. Amari doesn't develop in the least as a character over the course of the story. The author continually throws random bits of world building at you which have no bearing on the story. There is no excitement, because there's never any doubt that Amari is going to triumph at the end. The prose are bland. The secondary characters are all terribly supportive of everything Amari wants to do creating zero tension and making them all boring. I really had to force myself to get to the end, and then the so called twist was flat and uninteresting, and guess what, when faced with this terrible new threat there was an amazing deus ex machina, and lo and behold, Amari was fine. Terrible.

This was an interesting idea for a fantasy world. Unfortunately, it's very poorly executed. The narrative moves forward without producing any feeling for any of the characters. The result is simply a bunch of stuff happening without any feeling or connection growing for the people in the story. In short, despite all the action, it was boring because you didn't care about the people the things were happening to

It seems that these days that when any series is panned by its audience, the PR machine manages to make out that its because unreasonable fans of the source material are review 'bombing' the show. Well, I'm not a fan of the books. I did read the first four after seeing the first series on Netflix and I was pretty underwhelmed. I did really like Netflix's season 1. Season 2 was a massive let down. This piece of garbage was even worse. Why? The whole thing feels rushed. The story leaps around trying to cram in as much as possible in a short time leaving the viewer struggling to care about what is going on. The characters are all massive cliches and fail to bring anything new or interesting to the fantasy genre - it feels like a bunch of teenagers brainstormed them during their middle school lunch break. Without interesting characters or a compelling plot, the audience are left wondering what is the point? I can't believe this has been written by supposedly professional screen writers and no one stopped and thought - hang on, is anyone going to like this. Because sorry Netflix, it's not unreasonable book fans who hate this. People hate this because it is truly, truly awful, and when you started off with Witcher Season One, you should understand that your audience now have very reasonable expectations!