Review: Great for fantasy and dragon lovers.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
The beginning of this book starts out well. A half-elven girl sold into slavery has to work on her master's worm farm. Unique and interesting. Just enough to hook the reader. Then the girl has a run in with a dragon, and the story begins. I found the writing to be a bit bumpy and the author tended to rely heavily on writing cliches, but overall this was a good read. The story itself is your typical hero's journey where the chosen one must find their strength and defeat evil, while being guided and taught by a wise old wizard and supported by a motley band of creatures. Very Lord of the Rings.Although there are a few unique creatures such as the Garrak and the Gorrok, overall Medina sticks to fantasy tropes. This is not one for the history books, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do and falls squarely in the middle of the genre. I wouldn't send a non-fantasy reader this book, but I do recommend it to those high-fantasy dragon lovers that consume fantasy books like it was their life-blood.