And after reading a good chunk of it, I decided that not a single thing about this book is worth giving it any more of my time. To read the Witch King is to test how much one is willing to put up with. I was reading the Black Company at the time and I quickly finished it, excited to dive right into the Witch King. So I asked Tor to send me a review copy and-after some minor complications-I finally received it early this January (thank you for that, Tor!). All in all, it seemed like it could be a great entry point for me to start enjoying Martha Wells’ work. And for all good reasons: the Murderbot series has a lot of fans who swear by it good fantasy standalones are rare yet very rewarding the book is called Witch King and the cover art by Cynthia Sheppard is really amazing. When Tor first announced that Martha Wells was going to publish a new fantasy novel, I was instantly hooked. Let me demonstrate the trajectory of my enthusiasm for this book:
If we were to say that such stories hit the ground running, then, by comparison, what Witch King does is hit the ground and-after taking a minute to take in its surroundings-decide that maybe staying down here isn’t such a bad idea after all. A good example of this would be Glen Cook’s Black Company or its successor, the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. Now, some books are really good at dropping you off in the middle of the action and letting you piece together what’s going on along the way. After finding a new mortal body, Kai must find out who betrayed him and his friends, and what happened during the time he was unconscious. The book opens with Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House of the underearth (aka Witch King) waking up as a spirit around a year after his latest mortal body has been assassinated. I never read The Murderbot Diaries and, after reading the Witch King, I probably never will.
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