Review: definitely kept my attention
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
This book certainly held my attention. It is simply goood entertainment with a diversity of characters who are all on different adventures. It's fun getting to imagine all the different settings contained in the book.The characters also have depth. In other words, we see why the bad guys turned out the way they did, and the good guys don't always make perfect decisions.There are other levels to the story too. For example, the position of the cities look like the dots in the yin/yang symbol. The gods are tied to laws, which the mortals do not need to follow, giving men a huge power they don't necessarily know they have.It is clean adult fantasy. It does include sex, violence, and cursing, but it isn't explicit or vulgar.The only complaint, if I can call it that, is that I would have liked to see more dialogue and less explanation. I would have liked to been shown the story and heard the story more through the characters. I know this is tough with this one, since it's pretty complex, but that is something I noticed.