Review: Not good enough to make me buy book 2
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2014
I can live with an anti-hero. I actually want characters to be multifaceted. So the character contradictions didn't really bother me.The novel started strong. There are a few jarring editorial problems. But the beginning moves well and draws the reader in.The middle introduces some new characters and foreshadows book 2. It also becomes a tad predictable. There is no doubt who the healer "really is" from almost the moment when he becomes more than a secondary character.The end just falls on its face and, literally, rolls in the mud. The whole story line has lead up to a scene of final confrontation AND the winner walks away without confirming the kill. "I think he's dead". Really? He's won. There's a few NPC's hanging around who he has been stomping with ease and regularity and he walks away?Next logic flaw. The Ring Wraiths (opphhs, Ring Demons) show up charged by their cruel and evil master to GET THE RING. And some guy is so glib as to talk them into coming back in a few days and he'll find it for them. And we don't even get to see the scene where he does this, just hear that he did it after the fact. That must have been some amazing dog and pony show and we missed it.The ending is confused, incomplete, rambling, illogical, and little more than a lead in to book 2. And because of that I don't care enough to buy or read book 2.