I started reading this book some days ago (my friend Allaire lent it me) and… don’t know exactly what to think about it. I’m at the half of the book and it’s kind of really BRUTAL and disturbing from time to time, but you can see how the main character (the highpriest – and later king – of Assur) changes, how he becomes more human, how he becomes human at all, after being a monster, that enjoys seeing people dying painfully.
... and I hope the slash will come up SOON, because the het in the book is even MORE disturbing than all the torture and killing x_X;;