Review: A pretty ordinary fantasy
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2013
I wish I could give a better rating to this book, but unfortunately much like the first book in the series I found the story pretty predictable, the characters one note and the dialogue both wooden and unlikely.  The author has some good ideas about magic and has obviously given how it works some real thought. Its a pity the same hasn't been done for the characters who always seem to blurt out exactly what they are thinking at every given opportunity, seem terribly naive as to political issues and live in a magic community that seems to have not more than 10-20 people in a large castle.  I can already take a good guess how this series will end and I'd winch if I read it only to find no surprises but despite all these problems I did manage to make it though both books so they have something going for them but they aren't novels I'd read twice.