The Red Knight

How can this cost money?

There are typos all over the place, inconsistencies regarding such basic things as east and west (even when the book starts with a map that shows what is to the east and west of what), several descriptions of things and people that appear in the beginning are pushed past the halfway point of the book (things like how certain monsters look after they have killed them by the cart lode and talked about them as if everyone should know what they are) and at some points the word ordering and gramar gets wonky (things like "steely eyes gray" instead of "steely gray eyes").
I get what the author is trying to do when he writes things but its very annoying when it happens every third line, it feels as if no one proofread this before release and that it was written in a single sitting.
Several times the story contradicts itself when people are confused about things they have already done (e.g a monster hunter who led a raid into a camp and was reported to have killed dozens of 'boglins' (it actually says goblins in one chapter but all others say boglins(they are not goblins when described physically though)) in one chapter but the next chapter the enemy leader laments his loss of his camp of 'irks' (yeah it says irks and not orcs just as it says boglins and not goblins) and a couple of chapters later the same monster slayer is shocked to discover that boglins and irks have appeared... even though he knew they were in the forest since he killed a bunch of them just a little while ago?
The same applies when the author tries to use cliché moments like 'two people who want to meet barely pass each other in a crowd' (or 'almost meet except one dies just out of sight' as game of thrones uses it) where there is normally a buildup for several chapters for each character so that the moment where they dont meet can be felt and noticed while this book has four chapters of the king riding north with no mention of his food status followed by half a chapter of a guy deciding he is going to ride south with his cows to meet the king and sell him some beef, cow seller dies just north of the king and three chapters later the king complains that he is out of beef. That would all have made more sense if you had been told that the king was running out of beef before you were told the cow man was risking his life to bring his cows to the king.
Creating a "i hope this guy reaches the king with his cows or the king and the army will starve and they wont be able to move out and stop the invasion" is a way better plot than "wait this guy is bringing his cows south through this evil army? But the king moved north just fine without him why is he even bothering to risk his life when, oh he died well that made no sense why did he even, oh the king needed that beef.. well ok."
On the same topic; all characters talk like angsty teens, people cry and yell at each other for no apparent reason as most sentences are about five words.
He tries to build up the queen as a manipulating power playing behind the scenes while masquerading as a foolish young girl who knows nothing and merely serves her lord husband but she still comes across as a spoiled brat with about the same level of foresight as a preteen girl rebelling against her parents, she even planned a jousing tournament during a war for gods sake. The author tried to make her the industrialistic revolution of a medieval country by setting a measurement standard for wheels during a whole chapter (a whole chapter of a queen sitting in a room questioning why wheels are different sizes, that its hard to repair carts when no carts are alike, that roads differ in width (and ignoring to mention that the reason carts break when wheels and axis' differ from cart to cart is that the deep groves cut into medieval dirt roads would be the same width as the carts run there so when a different width tried to manoeuvre that road the wheels wouldnt fit in the groves and thus grind the cart or wheels apart)) and then go from one extreme to the other when she starts talking about clothes, fabric and how useless men are at doing anything without a womans help (even as the king had left for war without her, having gathered all his underlings, supplies and set off without her) and that she MUST follow her husband with the whole court, leaving the capital with no leadership whatsoever..
The main antagonist in the whole book is a living tree inhabited by the former royal mage who "died" forty years prior...
Somehow peasants are identifying this giant walking tree as that same mage.
They saw a tree walking around and instantly thought "dude its the former royal mage who died forty years ago"
And then they see an irk or a boglin and dont know what it is.
But that tree.
That tree is clearly the former royal mage who died forty years and ten seconds ago.
On he topic of his his name is Thorn.
A line in a book almost literally says "Thorn rested under the tree that bore his name".
Thorns are not trees, they arent even plants in their own right, they are a part of a bush, the small pointy things that grow on bushes.
Even if he sat under a bush (remember; Thorn the character is a huge ass walking tree) he wouldnt sit under a thorn bush.
Why name a character Thorn if you were planning to use that line?
Name him Oak? Birch? Elm? Pine? Anything that is actually a tree...
Another funny thing is the actual geography.
They say that Lissen Carak is the eastern border to 'the western wilderness' yet they are surprised that 'the creatures of the western wilderness' have appeared there, so far from the northern border wall to the north where the wall spanning from east to west protecting the south from the evil west, wait a minute why is there a wall in the north against the western forest?
If you havent bought the book (which i hope you dont for you own sake) then this review pretty much shows what is to come if you do.
And this isnt even all...