Review: Good but not the best for this writer
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
I pretty much agree with another third star reviewer. I click buy on pretty much every novel by this writer, but while this one contains several trademarks of her style, I did not feel it was her best effort.It has complex magical system, where interesting creatures (humans, and not humans, humans but not quite) defend the kingdom from evil and the hero who is thrown in the set up partially by chance, but partially because he is brave and felt the need to offer himself instead of his brother to help his family.Hero maturing on the job, being accepted by fellow warriors, I read it in her books before, but I did not feel that the set up was the same at all, she almost always gives it a nice twist. However it felt like the story piqued in several wrong places and what I felt was needed to tell me as a reader was not and information I got several times felt kind of useless.But I am making allowances for this being first book in the series - especially because several characters felt underdeveloped. It was a gripping story, but I needed more.