I don’t believe I’d ever heard the term Verdure used before. now that I’ve heard it in this book about 3,000 times, to describe everything from forest, to pushes, to grass, and who knows what else, I would suggest to the author to cut back on its usage by about 95%, and double check proper usage of the term. that rant out of the way, I find the story to be very tedious. I get extremely frustrated with characters I cannot relate to, the individuals who are supposed to be somewhat the heroes of the story, and everyone except for the bad guys are constantly making the most boneheaded decisions, it’s hard to keep rooting for them. at a certain point you just hope they get killed so you don’t have to put up with their dumbass Behavior anymore.