When I finished reading "The Still" I was left wanting more, so when "The King" came out I rushed off to get a copy. It just felt like such a step backward, with nearly all of Rodrigo's personal growth reversed for no apparent reason but selfishness and spite. His relationships with Rustin, his brother, and practically every other person in his life are sidelined by his selfishness.

As if that's not enough, I continued to slog my way onward, but I think I really would have appreciated a bit of warning for what was coming next. I left this book shocked and appalled and with this sense of being coated with a layer of grime.

I was very disappointed because I've always been a big David Feintuch fan. ( )

I rather enjoyed this book. Sadly I have seemed to have forgotten it all. It is a book you read, place it on your shelf and several years later you find it again and wonder what it is about. It was enjoyable to read and will sit there patiently until I take up the desire to fulfill my curiousity as to what really happened to those characters. ( )