Review: Review: Davi (Tales of Suruale, #1) by Roy C. Booth and Brian Woods
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2011
I really liked this short novel by Brian Woods and Roy C. Booth. They are both new authors to me, but I found great ones.Davi, a human and one of the best blacksmiths around was taught the trade by his father doesn't really fit in with his own people and soon finds himself on a journey.In this book the humans and dwarves do not really get along that being said the trade routes between Kronthor and Davi's home Hoon, have been cut off for some time and the people of Hoon are running low on food. This is where Xeric introduces his idea of sending Davi to Kronthor to reopen the trade routes.This begins one of the best short fantasy novella I have read in a while, it kind of reminded me of a mix up between Lord of the Rings and the Artemis Fowl series but still managing to be unique in its own right.The people of Davi's town Hoon, well the one introduced to us any way, Xeric. I didn't really like him, he was mean to Davi, for no reason that I saw and had only, I believe, interest for himself, no one else.Davi does go to the Kronthor and he finds the acceptance there that he did not find with his own people. I really liked this, how Davi found himself with the dwarves and basically starts a life, and he does accomplish what he set out to do of course there is a lot more to the book than that.This is the first book in the series, and I do hope that a second will be coming along soon. I think it is a book that readers of the fantasy genre are going to love.*I received an Ebook copy of this book for free to review from the author.