>the long, epic adventure to the macguffin is an exercise in misery and mind-numbing boredom >only one person actually learns anything from the trip while everyone else stays exactly the same >the macguffin wasn't even there, making the entire trip pointless >the epic siege against an overwhelming enemy ends in failure and a waste of life>the snake in the castle was the most moral person among the entire group of elites by wanting to save lives and didn't even care about the money>the young, ambitious heir to the throne is a spoiled piece of shit that knows nothing about warfare aside from stories that he's heard>the veteran commander that questions the prince's decisions was right the whole time and has to watch countless people die due to the prince's fuck-ups>ends up killing the prince for being a irredeemable scumbag>next book has a character explicitly shit on a book that has excessively detailed maps and a boring-ass adventure >essentially taking the piss out of books that try to ape the success of Lord of the Rings
