Review: Mediocre
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
Not awful but also not very good.This is a fairly simplistic "coming of age" type of story with nothing to make it stand out among a sea of such books.  The author, in the write up for the book, suggests there is a huge plot twist within...consisting of some sort of secret that the main character hides.  Yet the reality is that anyone who has ever read any fantasy whatsoever can figure out what the so-called secret is within 5 pages of the book's beginning...and that's without even relying on the author's heavy-handed hints about the so-called secret throughout the first half of the book.In the end, this book tells a tale with a certain plot device that has been told several times before by other authors...and told far better.Now I did finish the book, so it wasn't horrible. But if there were to be a sequel (and the somewhat rushed ending suggests there won't be) I probably wouldn't buy it.