Search - The Innocent Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker, Bk 1)

First book of two of "Kingmaker, Kingbreaker", which was originally meant as a single novel. (I think she may be writing more books to follow these two.) Not bad for a first series, and very different from her next two (The Godspeaker Trilogy and Rogue Agent). I see a lot of development in her writing as she grows in to it, but they do remain on the level of pleasant "potato chip" fantasy.

Excellent fantasy for adults who like complex, realistic characters and something besides the traditional quest.

I really enjoyed this. The writing just drew me in. The dialogue was clever without being shallow, the problems were big without being pretentious and the characters were very real. I look forward to reading more by Miller.

With a title like this one and the blurb that it has, I was expecting a tad more magic to be involved. But that does not negatively affect the book's performance. There is certainly plenty of political intrigue involved, for those who enjoy it (I certainly do).

I think this book does a great deal of justice to the development of the "minor" (or shall I say, "less major") characters. I found it hard to hate some of the characters, even though everything they have done have warranted that feeling. Although, of course, there are some exceptions whom we can channel our strong feelings toward without feeling the slightest remorse.

At the end of the day, the difference between a five stars rating and a four stars rating is my own personal bias. There is one "plot mechanism" (I'm not sure what else to call it) that I really dislike, but by no means does that make the book bad.

One warning though, make sure to have the second book on hand before finishing this book, it will make you want to read more!

In short, great book! I would recommend it to people who like political intrigue and fantasy readers who like magically based worlds.

This is the first book of three, the third is very new. It is well written and catches you immediately.

The book starts off with some excitement but gets rather boring after Asher accepts this high prestigious position working with the Prince. Anyways the author just goes on and on about Asher's training, getting quarters and blah blah. I kept trying to read it, but nothing was really going on in the story.

I tend not to finish books that have these "slow" sections. The ending could be good, but I didn't finish the book.