Review: At some points, less could have been more
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2013
The journey, the coming of age, the rites of passage, the damsels in distress (one of them is a god), and a love story.  The concepts and basic storyline were very good, and the author writes well.  The world and the characters are well developed.  The author keeps various fantasy races in line with what fantasy readers have come to expect.Where this book lost a star was in prolonged and overly repetitive descriptions.  When a love scene is described kiss by kiss, movement by movement, breath by breath for screen after screen I skim just to find the end of it.  I do the same when a battle scene is described movement by movement, blow by blow, step by step, and then from multiple perspectives (though never told in the first person).  And how many descriptions of thong underwear did we really need?If you like those sorts of things, they're in there.  If you're not into those sorts of things, there's still plenty of story in between them.