Kari C. reviewed on + 77 more book reviews
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This is a rather mediocre fantasy book. It is a High Fantasy setting, and has all the cliches that go along with it. A lowly boy who finds himself in possetion of magical powers, a kind hearted, beautiful young lady fleeing a bad marriage, a knight on a great quest, evil villains...basically anything you could think of. Well, except for talking animals. Hadn't run into any of those by the time I gave up.
Now, in and of itself, that doesn't make for a bad book. However, every character is completely two-dimensional. Many of them are quite stupid as well. There's no depth, there's nothing interesting about them, there's certainly nothing to make me feel connected to them. Even the bad guys don't register as interesting. The closest thing we came to interesting, fleshed out characters are the knight and the wise man that gave the knight his quest. But the wise man is only around for a few pages, and the knight isn't enough to carry the book by himself.
The author apparently had a hard time deciding if she were writing a young adult novel, or an adult novel. The tone of the writing feels like it's best suited for a young adult novel. However, in the first 175 pages there is one rape, two attempted rapes (one of a young 11 year old girl) and one rape that probably would have happened if I had just kept reading. Not to mention the torture scene. And then there's amazingly detailed description of one of the bad guys enjoying a treat of live oysters. Rather adult topics that felt completely out of place in this book.
Now, in and of itself, that doesn't make for a bad book. However, every character is completely two-dimensional. Many of them are quite stupid as well. There's no depth, there's nothing interesting about them, there's certainly nothing to make me feel connected to them. Even the bad guys don't register as interesting. The closest thing we came to interesting, fleshed out characters are the knight and the wise man that gave the knight his quest. But the wise man is only around for a few pages, and the knight isn't enough to carry the book by himself.
The author apparently had a hard time deciding if she were writing a young adult novel, or an adult novel. The tone of the writing feels like it's best suited for a young adult novel. However, in the first 175 pages there is one rape, two attempted rapes (one of a young 11 year old girl) and one rape that probably would have happened if I had just kept reading. Not to mention the torture scene. And then there's amazingly detailed description of one of the bad guys enjoying a treat of live oysters. Rather adult topics that felt completely out of place in this book.
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