Search - When the King Comes Home

After reading Sorcery and Cecelia, I wanted to read another of this author's books; the library had this one and so it was the first. Pretty good, but not quite up there with S&C. There was only one line that really made me laugh (quite silly and unstopably for several minutes) and the action drug on a bit. Plus I didn't think as much of the epilogue was needed. But it was definitely better than a lot of things I've read in the past - just not on the excellent side.

This book was OK but nowhere near as good as A College of Magics or A Scholar of Magics. And there is nothing to tie it to the other books in the series except for the setting. I didn't think the author did as good a job with character development in this book, and I found it hard to really care about Hail the way I did about the main characters in the other books. And I came away from the book feeling like I hadn't totally understood what it was about. If I had read this book before I read College and Scholar, I might not have read them at all because I wouldn't have been all that impressed by the author.