Review: A promising start, but not an earth-shaker
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
This short book is a pleasant story, clearly the beginning of a long series, and nicely executed. A couple of observations, however - overall, it is a bit rough - the book could have done with the services of a competent editor to smooth out the odd bit of dodgy grammar and punctuation and give it a more polished look - and the "adult content" scene suddenly plonked into the book about 3/4 of the way through was, I felt, unnecessary and added nothing to the work. If it had not been for this one scene, which could be deleted without any loss to the work as a whole, the book would also be suitable for children, opening up a whole extra market for it.Other than that, I felt the story was a little rushed towards the end - another couple of thousand words to arrive at the neat solution wouldn't have gone astray. However, fantasy readers are notoriously forgiving, and I feel sure this series will find a devoted following.