Review: You pulled me back in...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2013
I read Builder the first book in this series and just fell in love with it. the writing, storyline and unique world the author created was just what I had been looking for but had failed to find in new fantasy novels.Unfortunately after book one the following books just went increasingly down hill. The plots were lost and the richness of character building just devolved into an angsty sexual frustration memoir written by some horny teenager.The engaging plots of before became secondary to endless relationship drama that made all the characters I liked previously into people I could couldn't give a damn about if they lived or died.I kept reading the series hoping it would get back on course once the author got laid and could think about something other then sex for two sentences. I really loved this different take on the fantasy world and could see so much potential and just didn't want to see it devolve.Now please don't think me a prude or some morality bigot who chafes at the mention of something titillating in a book. I enjoy a good sex scene or two like as much as the next guy but what this series had devolved into made you just not care about anyone's relationship in the book or where those relationships were taking them which took a lot of the enjoyment of watching the people in it being developed. The characters became about as substantive as blowup dolls in a porno.But that aside I took the chance to read this latest of the series and HURRAH!I can enjoy the series again. This time the author set aside the main character who had become a bit of a whiny bipolar mess and wrote the story from the eyes of his brother and thus recaptured the magic the books had lost.I actually started to care again about the people in the book and what was happening to them and the author really took a risk in writing in some very graphic and hard to stomach sequences but they had a purpose and added depth to the book and main character and he didn't loose the thread on where the plots where taking us.Bravo Sir.Now please continue.