@O.Red
trust breh the payoff Is HUGE
that series passed GoT and Dune to me in terms of world building, pacing, epic endings and twist in all of the books except maybe the first 2, colorful characters, it had everything imo even comedy, something that's hard to pull off in a book. Tons of armies, rebels, gods, mages, all on some Tywin/Varys shyt scheming on ridiculous levels, nikkas were finessing Gods out there
running off on the seemingly immortal plug
AND alot of the best characters are black
Quick Ben is the GOAT Black wizard
it's similar to GoT in the sense that the first book or two Is just introducing the POVs
but I guarantee those 80 pages you read were vital to it
not a single chapter is worthless trust me on this, Yung Ganoes would give Jon Snow the beats