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4/1/2024
A wonderfully crafted world with intriicately detailed people and societies, all set in a world where the seasons change over the course of several hundred years.
The author tells an engrossing story of one man's dvelopment from a simple herder into a multi-cultural wise man, and all the steps along the way.
The main flaw in the book is the ending. After spending 90% of the book describing how the protagonist develops, slowly and inexorably, through many trials and setbacks, then author then rushes the protagonist to near godhood in a single chapter, where nothing he does goes wrong or against his plan. This is very disappointing, and it would have been much more interesting to have a whole second book about the rise of the protagonist to world-spanning power.
Still, since that didn't happen, and we have to live with the book as is. it might even be better for the reader to stop just at the last chapter and enjoy the book without the rushed, simplified and nearly unbelievable ending. This arbitrarily shortened work is highly recommended. The final chapter is not.