“I care about who you are right now and who you can be going forward. I’m not asking you to forget your past, but I’m telling you to overcome it.”
The experience I felt while reading this series as a whole was that it felt like either a film or a tv series. I would say that the former fits the description better, though. The sequence of the story, the moments, the dramas and intrigues all fell into that mysterious thriller/drama kind of story line certain shows have. However, we’re not reviewing the entire series as a whole now, aren’t we?
The King’s Men was truly brutal. There are pages within the book that truly made me grit my teeth. And although I have first hand experience of just how traumatising the book could be–from reading the first two books–I still felt that bizarre sensation of living a life in another person’s shoe. Every words that pass my vision that was translated by my brain to vivid imagery felt like a nightmare. It slowed down the time while I was reading the book, making me live each moment hoping, wishing for it all to end.
Of course, it wasn’t without the good parts. The book offered me the moment I have been painstakingly waiting for. I won’t deny that the second book did start it already; however, the continued growth within the third book gave me butterflies in my stomach. It was a good distraction from all the grotesque moments within the story. The romance between the characters are like a bleach to my brain. Hard cleaning me and re-wiring the dark with something light. It doesn’t take long to switch back, though.
Overall, I enjoyed the story as a whole. I did, however, thought that it was something that could’ve worked as a duology. Heck, I feel it could even work as a standalone novel. I find that parts of the story could have been omitted or written differently to allow for an approach that will lead to a story that will fit a book or two. It’s mostly preference but it was a huge factor in my experience with the book. Nevertheless, I think the series was entertaining, the story intriguing, the characters interesting, and the writing style was great!
