Review: Worth the time
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2012
This was an interesting albeit formulaic read.  In fact you get two for the price of one as it starts out by being "poor boy makes good at magic school despite bullies" then morphs into the "hidden mage/prince" formula.  The main character is naive and apparently suffers from low self esteem despite being the Bill Gates of the fantasy world and inventing world dominating magics (technologies) in his spare time.  He is unreasonably good to his friends while thinking that they are all just tolerating him and seems oblivious to any real affection shown him.  He has no concept of the value of his inventions despite having been raised in a for profit small business, a bakery.  This is annoying after a while.  So why four stars?  The character is sufficiently appealing and the writing is good enough to bring me back for a second bite of the apple, even if it will cost me more, so the $1 teaser worked. But I hope for better editing as we go forward and less anachronistic expressions like "earth to Tor".