Review: Translation hurt an entertaining book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
Faculty of Fire had a lot going for it,  The setting was fairly interesting, the magic system interesting, and a likable protagonist.  Unfortunately, I believe a lot was simply lost in the translation from Russian.  The prose got extremely choppy in places, to the point that I had to re-read passages.  There were also a depressing number of simple editing errors, i.e. missing words, confused pronouns (he and she got switched a lot)., extraneous or missing quotation marks, etc  Lastly, with the notable exception of Kelnmiir, most of the attempts at humor just didn't work right.  Again, I am going give the author the benefit of the doubt and blame the translation.In short, a fun quick read, but hurt by technical flaws.