Review: More magical feel to the characters!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
Classes are underway.  There are good times and bad with the kids.  There's a crew who plan on wanting the Horum Vir title.  Girls seem to flock to Monson.  Coren gets more interesting with the people we meet and what they do...kind of magical in their ways.  The duties of being Horum Vir start to surface here with the public relations Monson has to do for the football team and face of the school.This volume picks up at the very moment we stopped in volume 1.  Thank you Collin!  I really needed to know what was happening.  This volume doesn't end at such a cliffhanger point, but as Collin has mentioned there really is no good point in which to break with this story and that is very true.  When the break comes, I'm always glad he didn't stop somewhere else.  This story line has kept me interested and flipping pages to see what else will happen and what mysterious yet curious thing will any character do next.  It feels like magic here!The boys now deal with girl problems, of all sorts - good, bad and strange, like normal teens.  There is humiliation, threats and taunts of a bully, along with juggling homework and sports.  Along the way Monson makes a few new friends and an enemy or two.Oh, our trio - Monson, Casey, and Artorius - make me so curious!  There is more to them than we know, there has to be!  Casey gets to shine and show off his abilities in the starts of this volume.  You will be amazed!  We also get to meet an amazing fencer; Cyann.  She is an interesting and curious one for me as well.  Then we learn more about Daimon Peterman (aka The Diamond) and become rather curious of his sudden rise to the top and the mysterious question of, where did he come from?This volume is more modern version of things with school, relationships, football, and classes.  There is the overlaying feeling of magic to bring the fantasy sense to the surface.  The mythology sense is mentioned and is there, but still I'm curious to learn about myths mentioned and a past sad tragedy that happened here not so long ago.  One of our boys is related to this some how, and there is more about Monson that is hinted at here.  What a way to peck my curiosity and interest, constantly with hints of pieces.I have to say I'm glad five of the six volumes are out and the sixth coming soon as this is a story line I want to finish soon, real soon.  There is so much magical possibility here that I want to see what I'm thinking is magic really is.  And what the secret is about Monson.  On to the third volume for me!