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A review by rogue_runner
Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey
2.0
This was not as good as I expected it to be. I read a trilogy of Mercedes Lackey back about 10 years ago and remember loving it, so certainly I had pretty high expectations of this when I grabbed it (as an omnibus) off the library shelf. I'm not that inclined to continue reading the other two books in the trilogy either really.
It started off very slow paced, and continued for about 150 pages at the same slow plodding pace- journeying to Valdemar, with very little happening and little in the way of character development or interest. Perhaps if you were invested in the world and the lore of the place (having read more books or more recently) perhaps it would be more interesting, but there wasn't much that drew me to the plot or characters. Something is brewing, but it's taken such a long time to get round to it I'm not invested enough to continue.
Karal was distinctly average, and didn't much stand out to me as an interesting character in any way- apparently his defining characteristic is compassion, but it leads him to being the watcher of action, rather than actually doing much himself. At the beginning there was some premise of build up, with a stock villain enemy, but they don't seem to have materialised into anything more than a very minor secondary threat, and without any sort of intrigue or tactic at all to a promising beginning to the storyline there.
I feel like there are better books to read about Valdemar.
It started off very slow paced, and continued for about 150 pages at the same slow plodding pace- journeying to Valdemar, with very little happening and little in the way of character development or interest. Perhaps if you were invested in the world and the lore of the place (having read more books or more recently) perhaps it would be more interesting, but there wasn't much that drew me to the plot or characters. Something is brewing, but it's taken such a long time to get round to it I'm not invested enough to continue.
Karal was distinctly average, and didn't much stand out to me as an interesting character in any way- apparently his defining characteristic is compassion, but it leads him to being the watcher of action, rather than actually doing much himself. At the beginning there was some premise of build up, with a stock villain enemy, but they don't seem to have materialised into anything more than a very minor secondary threat, and without any sort of intrigue or tactic at all to a promising beginning to the storyline there.
I feel like there are better books to read about Valdemar.