Review: Robuster
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2012
This was a nice story at a price point that made it even better.The kingdom is caught between two religions,The One God and the old pagen ways.The King has switched his faith to The one God and his most trusted adviser will not.At the start of the novel the kings wife is in child birth while he and his friends are in the joining room waiting for the news.Twins. One child bares a mark and is the third son while the second will be his only daughter.Tooles (the adviser) is concerned over the mark while the King seems to think it means nothing.But having two older sons he is aware of the problems this third son poses.To keep peace in the kingdom and to save his third son a life of misery he sends him to be raised by monks.At about this point the story of The Third Prince starts.This was Mr. Neighbors first book and at times it shows.Having read all of his newest novels I was compelled to go back to his early work.I feel that Mr. Neighbors has the talent to be the biggest name in fantasy for years to come.This story was fine, it had good plot twists,the drama of the action scenes was decent but the flow of the story was off.It jumped from action scene to action scene with out the needed relationship building to sustain the story.I was not a fan of the ending either.It could have used a little more twist on the villain.Over all a nice story for a slow nite on T.V..IF you have some how over looked his work this is a good one to get started with.