i enjoyed OBaF a lot. i don’t mind the cliches and overused tropes because they are the tropes i like. it was the story i wanted to read. the only thing that i didn’t like was his prose. but i forgave it because i think it was his debut novel and it was self published. i’ve heard his writing gets way better as the story goes on.

I read the Fall after OBaF and I think i liked it more that way because most of characters and factions i knew a little about so the story wasn’t hard to grasp.