Review: Very well-written
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2012
This story is very well-written . . . not just by free Kindle story standards, but by actual human standards.  Whether the author is describing combat, magic, or feelings, the author does a great job of making things come alive for the reader.  But the entire time I was reading it, I was wishing that I was reading a novel by the author instead.  The world he has created is complex and he attempts to share too much of it given the length of the story, resulting in big blocks of difficult-to-digest historical and political data.  Maybe readers who are more accustomed to quickly immersing themselves in the details of alternate worlds will have an easier time of it, but I struggled with it.That said, I think in the context of a longer work, this wouldn't be an issue for me and I enjoyed this story enough that I wouldn't hesitate to read something longer by the author.