Review: The first one was better!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
While the first book had editing issues, this one is rife with incorrect usage of words, missing and incomplete sentences and spelling mistakes. It's also clear that the writer is in love with the main character. You start to lose count of the times a supporting character praises the hero, only for the hero to bashfully deny his worth, followed by the supporting character insisting that the hero is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It gets tiresome.After proper editing, this book will be with for stars. Until then, it shows a decline in quality over the first one.Spoiler Alert! It's mentioned several times that the one advantage the humans have is that Imperial mages are used to working together, their spells can be made more powerful by team work. At one point, an entire group of human mages, led by the hero, come across a human mage who is now aiding the enemy! He's teaching the enemy the basics of human magic! While he's not a particularly strong mage, this will still lead to eliminating the one advantage the humans have.The hero and his posse promise not to attack the turncoat mage for as long as they are under his roof. They leave the next day and then...do nothing! They make literally no attempt to silence or eliminate this mage that is undermining the war effort.It's made clear in this book that the hero's wife is pregnant with a girl. However, she gives birth to a boy in the next book! This reflects many small errors made in the story, areas of contradiction. Decent read, not as good as the first.