Review: I liked it
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
I originally wanted to rate the book at between 3 and 4 stars, but the series has a lot of potential so i gave it 5.  The writing style is quite fast paced and never lets go of your attention.  The story flow is good and well constructed.  I love the way the magic system of various races is explained, giving you a basic understanding of how things are done.  The characters are well defined even if not fleshed out completely (i guess in the following book they will).  The things I didn't like about the book were actually the length and the ending.  The story had many places that could have been slowed a little bit without loosing the pace, while giving us more story and background on the characters. The ending was quite abrupt like the author lost his train of thought and then decided "might as well end here".  I understand that maybe the next book may tell how the situation with the race (trying to avoid spoilers.lol) was resolved, amongst other things, but it could have been ended in a more complete way.  I understand that the author is a high school student, but in my eyes an author is an author.  I don't think publishing something good quickly should get in the way of publishing something awesome at a measured pace.  Hopefully the next book in the series will be twice as long and just as interesting.  I don't really care that much about spelling errors (I hate spelling Nazis), those can always be corrected, but a crappy story can almost never become a good one.  This was a good story looking forward to the series becoming awesome.