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Query: Death and Destruction overwhelm shallow characters.

Fast moving and filled with destruction but little suspense Savage Messiah failed to interest me because of the dull one dimensional characters from the noble prince to the old wizards.You know you're in trouble when the most interesting character is a conflicted assasin who's killing off the good guys and you don't care if the land is saved or not you just want to read more about her methods.Another problem is that the book is TOO grim.Sure in fantasy novels good should fight evil but there's so much gruesome death here it becomes numbing after a time.The writer tosses in a few sparks of joy every so often but it's not enough to lighten the blandly humorless tone.As a trivia note this book must contain more use of the word AZURE than any book ever written in history.To the book's credit it's an easy quick read full of magic and battles for fantasy lovers but it left me cold without any desire to see what becomes of the characters.