Review: Could of been great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2012
So this is the story of Carym who was a soldier and in this story has to come to grips with being blessed by the head god with power. His adventures start with his village being destroyed and himself and his friend sent on a mission to a mystic location lost to mankind. His adventures meander around seeming to lurch like a drunken sailor the books ends without him finding it yet.Bad- Leaden characters and the main character has no personality he swings between wiling to do anything to complete his mission to something else. The characters are just ill defined with the dialogue hurting and not helping. On one page you will get him wanting to keep an eye on someone and the next he will be shocked at their actions.- The story lacks cohesion at times you miss the point of what anyone is doing. Or even what their goals are.- Lots of side adventures that serve no real purpose to the overall story.- The dialogue are long info dumps about other parts of the world and seem more like they are trying to describe something than a real conversation.- The magic system is the best part of the story but even with the Carym having access to all these spells he just jumps right into combat each time. And even gets frustrated with himself about it. Well how do you think we feel having to read it? If he has all these options have him do something with it instead I kept reading about the other characters doing cool things and thinking what is the big deal with the Sigils anyway?Good- The world does seem interesting and I could see that the author had spent time on fleshing it out.- The overall plot had promise but the product lacks cohesion and focus.OverallI found it very sad this book had great promise with an interesting plot and world but the execution was not up to the same standard. The book is long which normally would be good in this case on the last 15 percent I was just skimming I couldn't do it anymore just got to be to much. I might try to read a sequel but only if I don't have anything else. What I would like to see is Carym actually use his power to do something not just make armor and weapons.... fireballs, earthquakes walls of air I mean come on even the bard was able to do more stuff.