Review: This book is a real slog to get through.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
I'm honestly puzzled as to why this book has so many glowing reviews.  I couldn't actually finish the book as the writing was so simple and painful - I kept on giving it a go hoping it would improve but much to my dismay it didn't get any better. The story is written along the lines of "he said", "she said" with a very simple magic system with a main character who is himself a simple illiterate farm boy at the start of the story. None of the characters seemed to have realistic or natural reactions to each other and this reads, to me, in many ways like either an early draft of a book or a writer who is still learning his craft.