like watching a B movie
the emotional outbursts the characters would inflict upon the reader was very much like watching a B movie. the actor/character was required by the directer/author to respond to a situation but the viewer/reader is not quite sure what they are responding to. i found myself often thinking to myself "why is this person flailing about?". character development is poor. the attempt to be secretive about a characters person was taken to the extreme and left me very disinterested. now couple that with a constant stream of grotesque impossible situations. what was with someone, who can only be described as having god like power, being controlled by a ring around his organ that could administer pain? pain that he could, if he really wanted to, overcome and obliterate people? why would he not take back control for good? this is only the third book I can ever remember not finishing it is so bad.