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A review by inthelunaseas
The Young Magician by Michael Foster
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.