Rating: ★★★★☆ Some books take months to finish because life gets messy. Some books take months because a certain fictional man gives you such a profound case of the ick that you need to walk away for your own peace. For me, Barons of Sorrow was both. I had a lot of unexpected changes happening in my own life when I started this book, and I just did not have the emotional energy to sit with something as dark, heavy, and intense as Forsyth. But I also have to be honest: Timothy