No Disrespect (SS spoilers)

[maulkin]

I also read the Soldier Son books before the Farseer books. I agree that Nevare has valid reasons for being the way he is and, generally speaking, I approve of "alternative" protagonists with interesting quirks and character flaws. However, I think that basing an entire trilogy around a character who is boring, submissive and self-pitying goes a little too far. Heroes are supposed to be people that we can empathise with (or at least sympathise with). Nevare simply has too few positive traits for this to be possible (at least for me). His key "virtue" is his devotion to duty which, in the context of the story, merely becomes another tragic flaw.