Charlie's Reviews > Oath of Gold

The very worst book of the whole trilogy; barely readable.

After the decent plot of the second book, and the reasonable growth of our main character, Paks once again becomes a flat, one-dimensional, flawless character. Never a mistake, never a misstep, just virtue, light, grace, selflessness, heroism.

At every moment Gird is summoned and it all becomes a sort of epic against evil.
The plot is extremely predictable, but obsessive detail is kept on tedious conversations. One therefore has the urge to skip sections, meanwhile you already know where this is going.

The ending is really glued together, a sense of "is this all there is? Did I really read a thousand pages to get to this?" remains.

The impression I got is that Moon almost wanted to cut it short at the end.

Many pieces of the trilogy are resolved, but not all; are they left on the road?

Moon's obsession with torture scenes verges on sadism here, really heavy to read; I understand and like the need for realism, but then let's devote the same love for detail to character introspection, growth, reflections. Not just gore.

The trilogy was only an enjoyable read in parts, much however marred by this very poorly thought out epilogue.

I finally read the whole trilogy and reviewed here on Goodreads all the books and the trilogy itself:

Book I
Book II
Book III
Trilogy