reading

To think that so many lives have been affected negatively, just by one person--one of the protagonist (whom we were supposed to like?)--is rather sad...Maybe subconsciously, he wants people to pay for his mother's death: the witches for abandoning her, the royalty for executing her. But to be honest, the witches don't seem to be all that nice to begin with, if all they do is kill unsuspecting young men for power...unless his mother was different from the rest of them and tried to save