Review: A departure for Reilly - but a good one.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
I wasn't sure what to expect with this, I didn't expect that Matthew Reilly would write something so different to any of his previous books;  but It's a good read.  Well written and engaging.  This is just part 1 though.  You really need to read all 3 books.Basic premise comes from mythology in the guise of Trolls and Hobgoblins (with a forward explaining that the myth could possibly have started at the time when Homo Sapiens Sapiens were the 'new kids' on the block alongside Neanderthal and Cro Magnon Man were sharing a region of earth.Our hero is Raf, a small but clever human from a tribe of "Northmen" suffering famine and plague because Trolls, who controlled the waterways had dammed the river back at the source and had also found a cure for the plague.  When Raf's sister falls ill with the plague he embarks on a foolhardy adventure into the land of the Trolls to steal some.This and the other 2 books tell the take of this adventure.  Buy it, it's easy reading, truly.