A story of a man who grows up in the fairy lands, raised by elves. The tragic story of him and his love, the war between trolls and elves and the games the gods play.
The story has the scope of a grand epic all contained in a single book. There are points where the story gives you goosebumps and is so thematic that the image is burned into your skull, but sadly it is dragged down by the author's clumsy attempts at writing a love story.
The women in the book are poorly written and seem to be simple to the extreme (with one exception with elven women that has a good payoff at the end). The romantic relationships are so poorly written and cringey that it feels like a love story submitted as a middle school homework assignment.
When the love story is not front and center it is often an interesting story, but the love story is the main plot of the book, so it is difficult to recommend reading it.
The ending was well done and I would dare say powerful. If the middle of the story was better written it could have been so much more powerful though.
One thing I did find interesting was how elves were written as strange and alien. They were not simply men with pointy ears.
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