Review: The Tower's Alchemist
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2012
There is a lot going on in this story, it is all connected it seems but there is just so much going on. I liked it though, it was entertaining, it wasn't overly faced paced or too slow, it was a good relaxed book. I was interested in this alternated reality of the Second World War. Hitler is big into occult magic there are wizards trained in a prestigious gray tower; actually it reminded me of a video game I have played. In my opinion (which may be completely off) there was a lot of set up for the next books in this trilogy.Isabella is an interesting character, she's an American who joined the British Special ops team, and she is a pretty great alchemist. Which doesn't sound like it would be a great combat power, but apparently it is. She has a job to hunt down a scientist, destroy some chemical weapons that this doctor made and go home and live a happy life. Of course things don't go easily (that would make a boring book) and there's a lot of fighting (though it seems like it's always with the same people), a lot of hunting, and of course some paranoia. I think the world was well built, I knew it was set in WW2 but it still felt a little modern, which I thought help make the story more relatable. The characters are likeable, but they could use some more development, there's history between some characters but you just don't really get into them all that much. I'm sure that since this is a trilogy that there will be more divulged in the next one(s).  I'm interested to see where the story will go from here.