Review: The Worst of the Three.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
In my review for the second part of this series, I mentioned the urgent need for an editor. This book is the worst so far. Incomplete sentences, incorrect spellings and incorrect usage of words. Strange, because there is an editor listed. What was she doing?How's this for bad editing...at one point in this book, the following text appears "Min should have an internal dialog that 1. she's right and 2. he's being told something he should have known by someone he dislikes"This is a note the author made to remind himself how to frame the conversation! It's included in the released book!The irritating way in which a character fawns over the hero (Minalan) only for Minalan to plead that he's "nothing special", to which the character will reply that Minalan is a saint, a superman and a right good egg? That continues over from Book Two. We get it. Minalan is the hero.Inconsistency. Minalan can telepathically speak to other mages, a fact that he wants to keep hidden for now. So what does he do? Minalan stands in front of someone who does not know the secret, says "I have to give my assistant a message", closes his eyes, then opens them and says "I've given him the message". Er...thought you wanted it kept a secret?Inconsistency. Minalan tells us time and again how the Mad Mage of Farise was able to decimate armies with only a sliver of ironite. Yet, when faced with five normal mages, he sweats, worries and says that he's in trouble. Why? He has a piece of ironite several magnitudes larger than the Mad Mage. He should be able to lay waste to armies!Leadership. Minalan is threatened by a mere jealous Lord, one of his kingdom's neighbors. We all know that he will smack this guy down, sooner or later. Unfortunately, the story drag's on and on.Leadership. At the end of the first book, one of the leaders of the magical wood fairies tells Minalan to contact the fairies daughter, and she will help. When faced with invincible dragons killing thousands, does our hero remember to do this? No.Leadership. Our hero is the only mage in the world with access to snowstone. While ironite amplifies your power, snowstone makes it much, much easier to cast spells. Surely, as soon as he found this out, he rushed tons of the stuff to the mages battling at the front lines to use? No. No, he does not.He keeps it all, while claiming that he's earned some rest.With some editing, this book could be worth three stars. Still the worst of the series.