Review: Disappointingly violent
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
This book has potential in its unusual story line. However, I will not give it to my children to read. I was put off by the brutality, betrayal and constant blaspheming. For example, in a fight someone stabs another person in the neck with an arrow and is sprayed with their blood. In another instance, a tree begs to be chopped down to die as all her tree daughters have been murdered by gnomes.There is a lot of bloodshed and horror characters.With the cliffhanger ending of these two books, although perhaps an effective marketing ploy, there is no sense of closure. The heroes' problems just seem to go from bad to worse. Maybe the author is trying to emulate Lemony Snickett.As a book aimed at younger readers, I personally think it is too violent.