Review: A Mural of Infinite Scope
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2013
You know the movie scene where the camera starts out focused on one small detail and then slowly pulls back to incorporate more and more until you have a panoramic vision of the entire landscape. That is the same sort of effect the author achieves in this book.Throughout the entire book, the author slowly reveals more and more, until you wonder where it will ever end. The level of character development, the number of races and civilizations, their histories, and the interweaving of plotlines and secrets hidden within secrets is simply breathtaking. And it is all quite artistically done.The adventure itself is compelling, the characters have a great deal of reader empathy, and the action scenes are gripping. This is epic fantasy drawn not on a large canvas, but in a mural.There are some typos, but they are not excessive and they do not detract from the read. Frankly, given the size of this masterpiece, editing alone would be a massive undertaking.