The Ill-Made Mute

The Ill-Made Mute: The BitterBynde, Book 1 by Cecilia Dart-Thornton.

One of the later parts of this trilogy caught my eye on the new books shelf at the library, so I decided I'd try starting at the beginning of the series.

But I only made it partway through chapter two before deciding to give up. The book was drilling in to me, over and over and over again, that the main character was shunned and ignored by everyone around him. OK, OK, I get it already.

Also, the framework of the book was showing through too clearly for my taste. Mr. no-name shunned and ignored is a servant and hides behind tapestries, follows other low-class servants around, and hears about important things going on which just so happen to describe the world around to the naive reader. Very convinient. But not interesting enough to keep me reading.