Review: Great Science Fiction / Fantasy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2012
One of the difficult things with these types of books is to make the world the author has invented seem real, with the right balance of detail, so everything is not over described but there is enough detail to use your imagination to visualise the scenes this works well in this book.A number of reviewers have commented on typos and grammar but either this is a later version with no errors or I was so engrossed in the story that I did not notice.Although quite a simple tale which initially I thought was possibly a children's book until later on in the book there are much darker themes.I liked the characters particularly the portrayal of Braille the thick (in all senses of the word) but good hearted soldier.There are some interesting twists and turns in the story which I did not seem coming particularly the role of the midwives from the watchers tower.My only disappointment was the ending which needs to be continued in the next in the series although there is no indication if this is the start of a series or a standalone novel. I hope it is part of a series as I will certainly read the rest if there are more to come.