Review: A boys adventure tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
Trail of Bones is an old style fantasy story with a heavy dose of action/adventure. It is one of those stories you either dive into with glee or find a bit too violent (though, in this day and age, maybe I am just being a bit too sensitive to it. Read the book and decide for yourself!). I swayed between the two elements, really liking the outline of the story, the creativeness of the creatures Salisbury developed and the world building.I really despised the Storm elf and the Warden. Others, the panther, the Minotaur and the wolves especially, I really liked. Part of me wanted to feel sorry for Korwin the Storm Elf. He had a horrible childhood, without doubt, but he is cruel and evil, becoming the thing he hated in his childhood. Adolphus and Magnus, on the other hand, are the epitome of heroes of the old style, and I want to learn more about what happens to them in the next book.Overall, this was an interesting way to spend a few days of reading, immersed in a well developed world. Kindness and cruelty, life and death, magic and blood. It is all encapsulated into a book which, as I said, you might want to read before allowing a younger person to read, but which you may very well find interesting enough to keep your own attention, and keep you looking for the next book in the series.Note: Violence and bloodshed in buckets.