Review: Wild, violent, and pointless fantasy.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
There is no table of contents in this book, and that's just the beginning of its flaws.The story starts off with what seems to be a collection of random characters and events, like intermittent fireworks, and I was tempted to put it down. But when the characters started coming together, I became curious about them, and I stuck with it to the end.I would say this is a story for people in their twenties who value flash and posturing and blood and guts. The emotional content is shallow at best.Though set in some far off place with humans and weird creatures, the language is contemporary, especially in the sense that it needs a heavy dose of editing. There are many typos and grammatical errors and sequences that don't make sense.The story attempts to moralize here and there. But at the end the central protagonist is filled with hate, and that is probably the lead for the sequel.Maybe a good editor could make something out of this book, but I'm inclined to doubt it.