Review: So I went looking for more tales of Swords and Salt
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
Young adult, but I really liked it and I'm not a young adult - more an elder aunt. This is set in the Emperor's Edge universe, but in the land of the magic users who are the enemy in EE. As the tales go on, you get more of an idea what the young hero (15 or 17 years old - not quite sure from the narratives) is getting out of all this, rather than just the "toughing up" his father wants for him. Oh, and the salt mines our hero is sent to to toughen up are real salt mines. However, it reads much like the back story for a full length adult novel about the hero when he is adult. That would be a novel I'd read because this is a likeable guy and an interesting set of circumstances.