Review: Very Good Start to Trilogy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
An exiled queen and her physically-imperfect son, Knights who ride giant eagles, games of speed and skills, apprentice knights who support friends and bully others in a most horrible manner, a queen who takes direction from a Knight she despises and who expects to rape her in the very near future, a mid-wife carrying a tenth baby as a surrogate for nobility, an imperfect young woman taken to the mid-wife to give birth and--unbeknownst to her--intended to eventually become a servitor to Tandor, the exiled and imperfect prince who knows how to control icefire and intends to use his knowledge to free all the imperfect children stolen by the knights--and then take back the kingdom that should be his family's.Having an involved plot and much action, the story line is well written and keeps the reader's attention.  There is some confusing information on icefire, but perhaps that is because the different characters have different views of it--and they all understand it differently.  Throughout the book, there are several grammatical errors with missing, mis-used or duplicated words--the kind of errors generated by an author so excited by the work that fingers fly over the keys in an attempt to get the story down so quickly that such munitiae become collateral damage.  A good story, the conclusion is hardly satisfying as this book's original purpose is reached and a plethora of new situations arise and beg for resolution in a future volume.