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lunaseassecondaccount's review
3.0
One thing I've noticed about fantasy novels these days is that they tend to be incredibly dense. I understand a lot of world building tends to go into these novels, especially when set in other worlds but our own, but I tend to find that there's just far too much world building than what I like. Furthermore, a lot of authors tend to include scenes that don't advance to plot. I'm not saying this is a bad thing- I don't want heaps of never-ending plot, but I find it really starts to drag the novel down.
Maybe it's because I've just finished reading it, but I found this book to be a lot like [a:Raymond E Feist|8588|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190654917p2/8588.jpg]'s [b:Magician: Apprentice|13812|Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320507076s/13812.jpg|15983]. Very dense, bogged down, that kind of thing.
Anyway, this book is good all the same, although slow to start with. I didn't find the plot to really start moving until the last three or so chapters, and then it just whipped by, in the way these things kind of do. I have the second book in the trilogy, too, so there's no doubt I'll be reading it shortly.
Maybe it's because I've just finished reading it, but I found this book to be a lot like [a:Raymond E Feist|8588|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190654917p2/8588.jpg]'s [b:Magician: Apprentice|13812|Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320507076s/13812.jpg|15983]. Very dense, bogged down, that kind of thing.
Anyway, this book is good all the same, although slow to start with. I didn't find the plot to really start moving until the last three or so chapters, and then it just whipped by, in the way these things kind of do. I have the second book in the trilogy, too, so there's no doubt I'll be reading it shortly.
inthelunaseas's review
3.0
One thing I've noticed about fantasy novels these days is that they tend to be incredibly dense. I understand a lot of world building tends to go into these novels, especially when set in other worlds but our own, but I tend to find that there's just far too much world building than what I like. Furthermore, a lot of authors tend to include scenes that don't advance to plot. I'm not saying this is a bad thing- I don't want heaps of never-ending plot, but I find it really starts to drag the novel down.
Maybe it's because I've just finished reading it, but I found this book to be a lot like [a:Raymond E Feist|8588|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190654917p2/8588.jpg]'s [b:Magician: Apprentice|13812|Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320507076s/13812.jpg|15983]. Very dense, bogged down, that kind of thing.
Anyway, this book is good all the same, although slow to start with. I didn't find the plot to really start moving until the last three or so chapters, and then it just whipped by, in the way these things kind of do. I have the second book in the trilogy, too, so there's no doubt I'll be reading it shortly.
Maybe it's because I've just finished reading it, but I found this book to be a lot like [a:Raymond E Feist|8588|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190654917p2/8588.jpg]'s [b:Magician: Apprentice|13812|Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)|Raymond E. Feist|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320507076s/13812.jpg|15983]. Very dense, bogged down, that kind of thing.
Anyway, this book is good all the same, although slow to start with. I didn't find the plot to really start moving until the last three or so chapters, and then it just whipped by, in the way these things kind of do. I have the second book in the trilogy, too, so there's no doubt I'll be reading it shortly.
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