Review: Promising
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
This is the imaginative fantasy tale of a race hard pressed by a desert land and a lack of water. Recent geological activity has greatly reduced the city's water supply and has allowed a fearsome race of sand-dwelling creatures to encroach.  The people of the city are divided into four groups, hunters, medics, craft workers and soldiers and the story follows a group of four who grew up together.The author has created a great set-up here which is very promising but it is marred by some clunky sentences and rather wooden dialogue at times. I found these rather distracting.  Michael Diack is a young author and I think experience will make his writing flow better. I hope he continues to write and on the basis of this book I think fantasy is his genre.