Review: Entertaining novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Eric Guindon has gotten Amazon to make this book permafree, quite an accomplishment I think. Well, it's good enough to pay for, although it is rather short. I read it in two sittings, so I would guess it's more like novella length. I was consistently entertained and interested to read more. The ideas that you have to memorize constellations in order to do magic, and that unfamiliar magic hurts, are new to me and interesting. The surprise ending did not surprise me -- I was anticipating something similar to the surprise -- but its abruptness did -- I could have used another ten pages or so of denouement.No grammar or spelling errors, and smooth competent style.I often know the authors whose books I review, and often accept review copies, but I don't know Mr. Guindon at all. I downloaded the book because it was free, and read it some time after.