Book Review: Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and The Broken #1), by Ryan Cahill

I don't want to spend too much time on this one, so here's the short version:

This book feels like if every other multi-volume fantasy series was used to feed an LLM, which was then prompted to output the absolute average of everything it had ingested into a starting volume of a new multi-book series.

It is the Applebee's of fantasy books. Absolutely mid, relentlessly derivative and unambitious, yet industrially competent and blandly satisfying in a way that makes you say "yeah, shouldn't overindulge on this crap but once or twice a year is fine".

Take that as you will. I might read Book Two someday if I'm overwhelmed in other areas and just want some unexciting but comforting pap that goes down easy. I hope not, though.