4 stars The Whisper That Replaced God, by Timothy Wolff @TimWolffAuthor ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A real breath of fresh, vaguely malevolent air, and a quick read. TWTRG is an odd duck. An unreliable POV account of a mad, mask wearing, villainous Prince who hears the voice of the dark god of silence and kills people. He can make everything around him totally silent, which is useful in his line of work as an assassin. It's a cool concept, it swings for the fences with a massive cringe lord MC who, honestly, I kinda loved. It does many, many things that I like - it's fun and it's darkly funny. Once I switched the main character to looking like Grima Wormtongue in my head, it clicked. He's not a good guy. The writing, voice, the way it plays with pov, is all fantastic - I just can't say the story really did anything for me, it lacked a good bit of bite, but the way it's narrated makes for easy and enjoyable reading. I liked it, but not enough to check out the sequel. Extra points for originality, it's a really unusual type of story and I had fun reading it. Oh, and the two random jabs at Amazon, while totally justified, reaaaally took me out of the story, that was like stepping on a Lego. 4 stars.