The Betrayal of Ka by Shea R. Oliver

I received a free copy through Netgalley.

I want to start with saying I found the parts about Ka truly mindblowing. They are raw, and since I think in pictures, I truly kind of hated him in the first chapters, to feel sorry for him later, and delight in seeing him grow during the rest of the story. These parts of the book would have gotten 5 stars from me.

Then why only three stars? It is the duality of this book. The other parts would often have gotten only 1 star had they stood alone. There were some okay parts in those not about Ka, but especially at the start there was such a huge amount of dry, bland infodump that had the book not started with a part that was written much better before it, I had put it down. The hope it would get better drove me to reading on. It did get better. And worse again. And better. And ...

The good parts of this book are so great they are worth the read. Do prepare yourself for a political and historical infodump, and dry and boring parts between the good parts though.

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