I'm going use this as a platform to talk (rant) about a book I'm extremely bored with.
It's well written and the characters are great. But, my god, the plot is so fucking boring. And the actual contents of the plot are not the parts that bore me, but the fact that the characters say what they're going to do (the contents of the next chapters) before they do it. The book is called The Lies of Locke Lamora, it's a sneaky sneaky book about thieves. They spend about 20% of the book introducing the main character and his propensity to con. I was fine with that, you have to introduce/info dump, and I read through expecting something more. But I was sooo disappointed. I had this same problem with another heist novel, Six of Crows. I never cared about the plot because I knew it could only go one of two ways: according to plan, or not. And the writer is fairly detailed, so I have to real all the way through the preparation phase of the plan before shit actually goes down. It feels so slow paced. You know what, it's a good novel, but not my kind of novel. It's not about the plot, it's about the atmosphere, but I read for the plot and characters.
I'm a little half way over with the book now and I think I'm going to give it up. I wanted to like it sooo bad. Sneaky sneaky thief novels may be just not for me.
Edit: And Blood Song's ending was soooo bad! Like 66% of it was amazing, but the rest was sooooo bad.