Review: Good start
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2013
Interesting start to a new fantasy series. The premise is fairly standard but it is well executed. A farm boy who's family is attacked leaves home to make a man of himself, a story as old as stories. Several of the characters are simply place holders or redshirts that never get explored and are easily replaced,or as one character actually says in the story, "Before you came along there was only six of us. Now there's five. We'll find someone else if we need to." I have no doubt they will but it's just awkward to have the author acknowledge what he's doing so blatantly. Still it's a good fast read and I look forward to seeing if he can break these characters out in a new direction