I then looked it up and was surprised to know it was a series of five books, with four of them already out (at the time, now it’s complete), and three already in mass market edition. I probably saw it mentioned on some forum or twitter and then it came up a couple of times, commented as somewhat complex style of narration. I don’t even remember how I got to this series. Usually when I order and read a book it comes after a lot of pre-reading, researching both the author and the book. More recently I’ve tried to retrieve some of that but I decided that rather than resuming one of the many things I left behind, I wanted something fresh. In the last couple of years priorities changed, so sitting down to read a book in a regular way became more rare. But real evil, insidious evil, is what lets us just walk away from another person’s pain and say, well, that’s none of my business.” Demons and monsters are obvious we’ll always band together to fight them off. Real evil is an empire like Quur, a society that feeds on its poor and its oppressed like a mother eating her own children. “Oh, but you would try, wouldn’t you? Except real evil isn’t a demon or a rogue wizard. “Should I point out that none of those are ‘something I can just slay’?” You think evil is something you can just slay.” But you think that evil is like the Old Man, like Relos Var, like that thing sleeping in the middle of Kharas Gulgoth. He leaned closer, resting his elbows on his knees.
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