But it isn’t gold or jewels the old wizard is after, and this prize can only be obtained by the combined talents of two remarkable men. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most valuable possessions. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the first book of the Riyria Chronicles, and begins the prequel series to Riyria Revelations.Ī warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. If I'm wrong, I'll write another review to that effect, I promise.'Two men who hate each other. I'm going to plod on to the end mainly because I've bought it and I've invested some time in getting through it this far, but I am confident that nothing much will change by the end, I won't care anyway and I won't be seeking out the next thrilling installment ! If you like long, descriptive passages and endless dialogue which, by the way, is repetitive and does little to move things along, then this may well be the book for you. Oh, somebody did receive a hot pie in the face around page 200. The escapes have been leisurely and uneventful, nobody has so much as raised a sword in anger and the two central characters hate each other.

The jacket blurb from Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly describe the arrival of a 'master storyteller' who writes about 'hair-raising escapes, flashy sword fights and faithful friendship' and believe me when I tell you that by page 216 - where I've reached at the time of writing - this could hardly be further from the truth.

To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

The crown tower book