Review: Totally not worth reading if it wasn't for the interesting characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
Warning: Some spoiler alerts!*****************************************I bought this series based on a recommendation.  Unfortunately, I was trying to skim as fast as I could to try to get the jist of the Kinshield Saga's conclusion after reading Book 1.  I should have just stopped reading at Book 1 of the series.Pros: The entire collection including the side story of Sole Sacrifice (about Sithral Tyr's past) is in one set.  Every once in a while there are some good ideas about the storyline and interesting characters.Cons:Chapters are very "choppy", especially in Book 1.  Literally one small thing happens and then the author starts writng another chapter with different characters in them.  Then, K.C. May jumps back to finish off the other chapter, etc. etc.The supposedly intelligent characters do such STUPID things that I can't stand it.  For example, Gavin Kinshield keeps complaining that he has no money.  He had won a big box of gemstones from the evil wizard Ravenkind.  Instead of taking some gems with him, he and his friends magically lock up the door of the study and they leave all the gemstones in there.  I guess they don't think that the evil wizard Ravenkind can knock down a wall or possibly go through a window to get the gemstones back.  In addition, they keep re-iterating how the wizard was strong and magically devious and escaped five guards; But yet everyone only gets only 1-2 guards to protect entire families of Gavin's relatives.  No surprise, the guards get slaughtered or captured over and over again.Very confusing Kho bent vs. Zhi bent along with yellow and green and blue realms vs. Elyle realms and Nal Disi realms along with the ability to go backwards in time among all of these realms.Totally not worth reading if it wasn't for the interesting characters.