Review: Give this book a try - great first book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2012
I took a flyer on this book because it had good reviews and was inexpensive.  I am glad I did.  I find it harder to find good quality fantasy books I have not read and this book was a gem discovery.  You could empathize with the main character while sharing his thrill of discovery in the world of magic and his new friends.  Perhaps not quite a Harry Potter, it still has potential to develop into this type of coherent world of magic with relationships new viewpoints on world events to unravel in future books in the series.  This works reminds me of other authors you may be familiar with Faith Hunter, Yasmine Gelenorn, Kim Harrison, etc.  I was very pleasantly surprised by quality of writing, the dialogue, the excitement level and read the book straight through.  Every serious fan of magic and fant6asy should give this book a try.