This goes in my top 5 most boring books that I’ve ever finished. This is what I get for buying a book because it looked cool. I don’t think I cared about a single character - not that there was much to know about them - and there was basically no story to fall back on.

The anachronisms were jarring, the writing stilted, and the villain so lazily depicted as fat (my least favorite “literary device” a.k.a. fatphobia parade).