Review: great adventure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
Dream Robbers is the story of some elf children who set off to find out why their dreams have stopped.  It's a good adventure story, and the writing by R.C. Scott is excellent, but for me there were just too many characters to keep track of.  The story is entertaining, especially when the author focuses on just one of the characters like when one of the Elves get separated from the other and gets lost in a swamp.  Another excellent section of the story focuses on a couple of sky elves who ride eagles.Unfortunately, the story then goes back to the elves and fairies as a group and I couldn't for the life of me keep their names straight.  Maybe this might not be important to a younger reader, but as an adult, I wasn't as enthralled with the characters as I normally would have been. The story itself is exciting adventure with a good message so the book has that going for it.The cover doesn't say anything to someone who hasn't read the book, and doesn't hold up against all the other books in the fantasy genre, and I'm not sure it would attract the attention of younger readers.If this is the writer's first book, then it's an amazing first book.  Scott did so many things right and is an excellent writer so, I'm sure he'll have a long and fruitful career.