Review: ultimately tedious
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
This one started off alright - though the "Good vs. Evil with a side of prophesied Chosen One" has been done to death.But after a while, it just got tiring.  All of the characters, particularly the "Good" ones, are just inept.  If it were just the underage heroine, that might be OK, for a while at least, though I simple hate a weak female lead character.  The "Evil" characters at least have some spine, though are similarly one dimensional.  In the beginning of the book anyway (I couldn't finish the thing), virtually all of the authority figures could be described with the phrase "officious prig."And of course the author feels the need to lay the "Evil has the upper hand and the poor little Chosen One must forever suffer" plot device on thick.  This is one of the the most overdone bits in fantasy writing and it just gets so old.