Review: A good fantasy read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
Draykon takes place in a world that contains many realms and layers within it, so many that I had difficulty working out exactly what was happening where.  The plot is well considered and the characters were believable and easy to follow, but I really struggled with the location in this book.  From the very beginning I was thinking that perhaps I had missed a book in the series that explained the layout of the realms and the depth of the culture surrounding them, but frequent checks back at the title reminded me that this was, indeed, book one, so I shouldn't have missed any information.  This made the book somewhat frustrating at times because I was desperate for that understanding.Otherwise, this was a fairly good read.  I was interested in the action and many of the characters were able to hold my attention /through/ the confusing locations within the story.  I found myself wanting more of them, not just more story, but more background, more explanation of their physical forms and their cultures.  A little more attention to detail and I would have been happily clinging to the book to discover what was inside, then rushing out on a quest to get the second book in the series.  As it is, I found this an interesting story, but I don't know that I was pulled in quite enough to get the next in the series, since I think my curiosity in the realms within the pages won't be as satisfied as I'd like it to be.Note: Though this book was a free gift from the author, the content of my review was in no way influenced by the gifting. The book speaks for itself and my review would have been worded just this way even if I'd gone out and bought it. I also give bonus points for Text To Speech enabling on Kindle format.... but that also wasn't a factor in the above review.