Review: Book Review by PizzyGirl
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
4.25 of 5 StarsFor original review see The Prism Book Alliance Blog onlineClashing Tempest is the third novel in the Men of Myth series by Brandon Witt. It brought full circle the plot lines from books 1 and 2. Many of the questions left hanging were answered and many of the characters were more fully developed. With this book, the series became more meaningful and insightful. I finally got the point of the first two books (even though I wish I would have gotten the point while reading them at the time). This is a series that needs to be read all at once. Books 1 and 2 are good, but it took the third book for it all to come together.This book was much more mature than the first two. There were still parts that I felt were not necessary to the overall story, but Clashing Tempest had better plot movement and I was able to read it in two sittings instead of constantly being distracted by other things. The writing was more straight forward and to the point, but had enough detail that I was able to picture the environment and characters easily. The descriptions of the scenery could easily lend themselves to movie development.Overall, I think the author is very talented and creative. I love the world he has written and the different types of creatures as well. This series is the type where the reader will discover something new each time the books are re-read. I noticed things with book three that I missed in the first two, such as using types of fish to name the mer-tribes and using attributes from those fish to model the merfolks.However, I still hold firm that each book was entirely too long and needed to be broken into more manageable segments. I also never developed a connection to either Brett or Finn. They were just not the type of characters that appeal to me. Even though both have redeeming qualities, I had a hard time getting past the martyr syndrome both seemed to live with. But that is just my opinion, and there were other supporting characters that were likable and I wouldn’t mind more of their stories.