Review: terrible writing and story hard to follow
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
I gave these books a 1 star rating for many reasons. For me, in the beginning I found it difficult to get into. It was not until the end of Chapter 2 that the reading began to flow smoother. I understand that this is a sci-fi world with new terms and things I have never heard of and I expected to be taken into a world of the author’s imagination, but I think some things were not explained well enough to portray to the reader what the author was trying to convey. I know sometimes an author can over explain and that can lead to boredom, so a happy medium is hard to find. But maybe a glossary of terms in the beginning would have been a nice touch so we would have known exactly how a graylesh differs from a horse or a morgren from a camel. Maybe that would have helped me to transition into the Kelanni world. I get that readers are to take some liberties and use their imaginations, but how can the author leave out so much? This is HIS story and I as a reader want to be taken into a world that has been created for me, not one I have to create myself. I found the lodestone technology interesting but difficult to grasp. I found even the band of hero’s lacking the likeable factor...and these are the main characters! However, I enjoyed Lyall’s and Alondo’s friendship and wit and I found Boxx to be the most endearing and likeable character of them all. I gave this 1 star because while there were many flaws, there is a story here I just think the story was lost in translation. I usually finish books that I start no matter how bad, but I had no interest in finishing this one. I only made it through the first one and gave up.