Review: High Adventure on the Iron Seas
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
This is a review of the whole story, parts I-VIII. I absolutely loved the story. The characters and the world are well developed and it just flows beautifully. There are issues for the characters to overcome and it's fun to see how they grow and develop through the serial. The author writes with a lot of wit and humor which I really enjoy and appreciate as a reader. I've read other books from this author's Iron Seas series so I also liked that she included other characters from past books in this one. The inclusion of older characters is seamless so it adds to the story but ensures that one can still read The Kraken King as a standalone.As other reviewers have mentioned, this serial is pricy. It's $1.99/part and at eight parts that comes out to be $15.92. Amazon lists each part to be ~80-110 pages in length, ~750 pages in total. Keep in mind that each part, except part VIII, has a "sneak peek" section at the back of the book so you aren't actually getting the full length of the book listed. Averaged out over the eight parts, only ~84% is the actual story so you are paying for an ~630 page story. If this were a mass market paperback, $15.92 would be expensive; since these are e-books, that price is ridiculous.I enjoy this author and I enjoyed this story so well that I'm ok paying the ridiculous even if I'm not entirely happy. So I give this story four stars instead of the five I would have given it, if it had been reasonably priced.