Review: Princess of Landover married Harry Potter and had a kid - Tess.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
It may seem harsh, but I really did not enjoy the approach in this book.  If you've read Terry Brooks' Landover series and happened to try Princess of Landover, you've got almost the same thing here, but with certainly more magic twist to it.  I would say it's Princess of Landover meets Harry Potter.The idea is that what we know of Lumineia from the previous books is actually an earlier version of the world we know today.  Magic users have isolated themselves from the world, and studies continue in large schools in the clouds.  It was prophecied that the next oracle would return, and this young lady appears to be it.  She is yanked from her reality into a new world and has to learn things that she never thought possible.At first read, it almost feels like the story is going to turn out fantastically, but then you read chapter after chapter of Tess going to classes and walking around that you're left wondering if the story is ever going to pick up - and it does, starting around chapter 13.  Until then, the pretext that is given is clearly to set the stage for what's to come, but it's a bit lengthy for my taste.Expectations were rather high coming off of the first book of the Chronicles of Lumineia, I admit.  Still, I expected a bit more from this new entrant in the series.