Review: Good Read, Integration of Folklore/Fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2010
I almost enjoyed the book more for it's integration of different folklore than the story at first.  Things like the Mari Lwyd (which I have only seen referenced in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series before), Hern the Hunter (Herla), Old Hob, Oberon, etc...  really cool to see those references worked in, although a bit disconcerting at first as I tried to reconcile the world he was creating with those types of references.  It probably took a good two thirds of the book before I started to really get caught up.A previous post somehow made the connection to Jordan's WOT series which really could not be further from the truth-  in a superficial way, I suppose you could try to make the leap that the setup is similar to TEOTW, but really, trying to make that connection is sort of ridiculous at best.  The series really stands on it's own from my perspective.Once I got going, I thought it was a great piece of Indie fiction-  I'm on to the next in the series and and looking forward to the completion of the series.