Review: 3 1/2 stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2013
I'd like to thank the author for allowing me a copy of this short story in exchange for an honest review.I'd like to start out by saying that this is a great premise for a story. A man swears vengeance on his enemy, and kidnaps his daughter, only to have the whole plan backfire on him when he falls in love with her. The story itself was well-written, the plot moved along as it should. The story ended well.Yes, I know you feel it...the looming "but"....But....I felt nothing for the two main characters' budding relationship. There was more emotional tension in a possible uprising in one of the later scenes, than what I felt between these two. And I still don't know what Ilias looks like. I have deduced that he must have blond hair, because at one point, it was noted that all typical Dacians have blond hair, but I read the story through twice just to see if perhaps I had skipped over it by accident.However...I have noticed that this story has been expanded with further details, so I'm hoping that all of these missing details have been added into the later edition.