Review: Cracking enjoyable fantasy story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
I read this after I had been struggling to read another book for a week and had given up. It was such a pleasure to find a story that really pulled me in and captured and held my enthusiasm. The characters were real - flawed but appealing, they grew and developed in the course of the story in a realistic way. The setting was also well done and believable and hung together well. The writing was fresh and lively and sparkled. I really hated having to put the book down as I wanted so much to see what happened.There was some interesting ideas in here - old staples like dragons done with originality. The relationships between the main characters developed well and took surprising twists.Altogether this was a real pleasure to read. There were one or two minor flaws, but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of the story.