Review: Good beginning.  Falls off toward trhe end.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2013
The story is your basic sword and sorcery/young man growing up in a medieval magic using universe.  Our hero is different because contrary to dogma he can handle both iron and magic.  He's likable and for most of the book the pacing was nice, building toward more complexity.  You can tell the story is meant to be a series.  But at the end, the plot becomes rushed and I started having trouble identifying with the characters.  They were suddenly making unrealistic decisions that seemed very forced by the author.  It felt like the author just wanted to finish the book.