My first contact with Japanese Light Novels. Unfortunately the writing is terrible. Guess I'll just stick with the anime.
I completely don't understand why there's such hype about this series. The drawing is ugly, the story stupid. Can't believe this was written by the author of Saga.
"The Final Empire" is a brilliant action-packed plot-driven high fantasy book. It starts slow (a bit too slow) but keeps getting better and better until the end when everything unfolds and wraps up perfectly. Indeed, this book's mind-blowing ending is among the best I've ever read, with so many twists and turns taking place in such few pages.
i don't get this book. the tempo is so f**king slow and absolutely nothing happens from beginning to end.
one of those books which i have "read, re-read and read again..." but still cannot remember anything about... and that's actually a good thing.