Review: Nice Fanatsy Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
A fantasy work, this short novella is the first in a planned trilogy about Weylin, a member of the race of Balauri, who has fallen from grace and has been on the run for ummmm centuries, I think.  The book is the story of his most recent travels to reach a hidden community of outcasts, and whose traveling companion seems mighty suspicious.Balauris have eternal life.  They can't die.  I don't read much fantasy, but when I do, I look for something unique, something different that sets it apart from all those other fantasy worlds.  And I was delighted to find that A Song of Betrayal has several things that give it its own flavor, such as the Eternal Life of the Balauri, the bald songstress, the forest of trees that are made of ancestors.I confess to being a little unclear as to how if a creature has eternal life they end up as a tree, which is not quite the same as continuing on having tea and crumpets and fighting your enemy with nifty swords til the end of time, but then I am sometimes a few threads short of a sweater, so I probably raced over that part so as to get to the treachery about to unfold.Nice characters, some funny moments,  and enough standard otherworld fantasy fare to keep the fantasy fanatics comfy.  Looking forward to the next installment.