A review by manglitter
The Return of the Knights by Gregory Kontaxis

3.0

That was a descent and easy read for an epic fantasy book. I liked the worldbuilding, the cultural aspects of each region we visited which also influenced the names of the characters. Tolkien's influence. We also have a great Villain with no mercy at all for his enemies but he was named Walter Thorn! It sounded more like a Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope's kind of character, I really felt bad for him.

I really hated the hero of the story who is named "Elliot"like "Elliott the dragon"! Anyway, I find him the worst, smart-ass, foolish and big mouth hero I've ever read about in a story. The book's title should have been "A Guy With a PLAN"! Oh my god, he was so irritating. I know it is a debut novel and I don't want to say too many bad things about this author's hard work which I really respect but I think that he is good at villains than at making heroes. Also, there was so much, so much repetitive and long explanations about things and mainly that freaking PLAN that we already understood! It was really tiresome. And let's not start with that company the author selected for him.

I hope that the author will do a better job in his future books and of course, I will read his next book.