The Crimson Road was one of my most-anticipated reads for the first quarter of 2025. I loved The Path of Thorns and I love Slatter’s grim, violent fantasy storytelling. 

Sadly, I really needed this story to get up and going much sooner than it did. I loved the writing style and the story the book was trying to tell, but ultimately it just took too long to get to the actual story, in my opinion, and by then I was thoroughly frustrated at all the hurry-up-and-wait I had been forced to sit through. I would have much rather read the story about the journey than the story of everything prior to journey. 

This isn’t a hard and fast ruling, though. I might come back to this book after I’ve read more Sourdough books and seen how the books interlock a little more. That’s always a fun endeavor. 

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