A review by somewheregirl7
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton

3.0

Like many books, Endymion Spring began with a lot of promise and never quite delivered on it. The main characters felt rather flat and in the end there was no great revelation as it felt like we'd been building to. The end was all to predictable and bland. Was it really an end at all? The story swings wildly from the middle ages and Endymion to the present day and Blake and Duck the two young protagonists who stumble into the story. The parts set in the middle ages were intriguing but they never played out - the movement was jerky and hodge podge, leaving out a great deal and never really answering some key questions. There were lots of loose threads that never tied together.

At times the description and prose were beautiful and lyric and at times it fell flat and cliche. This definitely felt like a freshman effort and perhaps the author's next work will be better. As I said, this had promise. The pace was just not fast enough, book too choppy and the whole not knitted together well enough.