Review: Not long enough
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2013
This book is short, VERY short. At most i would say its probable about 150 pages  and unfortunantly thats its biggest issue.I had no problem with the editting, there were a few issues here and there and some very simple sounding sentences at times but not enough to detract from the book. The descriptions were fine, the characters were fine if stereotypical and the fighting scenes were well done. Then there is the magic which has several interesting applications.I had no problem with anything and also HAD a problem with everything. How does that work you may ask. Well its simple, the book at times seemed more of a framework or an idea than a full book by itself. The characters could have been deeper or we could have seen more interesting interactions between them. Some of the conflicts between several of them felt rushed and could have benefitted from being more spaced out.Alex advances with magic and other things very quickly, at times too quickly. There are also several things especially his lineage that could have been VERY interesting to go into more in this book.So why did i give it 4 stars (really 3.5 but no halves allowed =(  )? Because it still works, the book flowed well enough and everything was good enough. Characters, dialogue, descriptions everything was JUST good enough. The problem was that it was far too easy to see that it could have been som much MORE.In the end i enjoyed it. It was short, only a couple hours read but as long as the author does not bump up the price for a similar sized book i will buy book 2.