Review: Only so so
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
I liked Kim Fielding's earlier books, but then I kind of left her works behind. This one seemed like a fun one to come back to and to a degree it was fun, but only to a degree. The story is basically a quest. The main character Mike gets forcibly thrown in the world unknown to him and forced to go on piligrimage (by an angry or more like mischievous Goddess, and boy I wanted to wring her neck).I like Quests, but more than once I was asking myself what's the point of this one? Oh the point was stated, given to Mike, etc, but to me such story only makes an emotional impact if the Hero learns stuff about himself and improves himself. It was funny actually how the author tried to *tell* us that Mike had the character qualities which needed improvement or complete eradication. And I was like so far I have not seen him showing his worst qualities once even if I got to hear about it. So anyway, the Quest just fell emotionally flat for me for Mike's character arc. Him finding love was nice and I liked him with Goran, and Goran actually made more impact on me, because one could SEE what he learned and understand why.I also thought that pace of the story was off in places - they were going and going and going. AND going.Not sure if this story encourages me to go back to Kim Fielding's works - probably not.