Review: Great story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
I really enjoyed reading the first book, where Thorgrin pushed forward and achieved his dream. I bought the second and third book right after I finished it! The second book finished a little too quickly for me, I felt that alot could have been expanded on in it and that it ended very abruptly. But I had the third one already so that wasn't so bad. The third one picks up from there. I wish that the 100 days hadn't been completely avoided. I mean if Thorgrin has had so many adventures in such a short span of time, how can something else not happen in 100 days? But maybe that's for a novella. The 100 day cover also meant we didn't learn about what went on in the ring during that time. (or did we? I was a little confused about some of the location/perspective jumping)I say this when at the same time I feel the books progressed somewhat slowly, not that I mean it was slow to read. I'm not sure if that was from the character perspective jumping or not, but when they find out about the trouble with Gareth I feel like it took too long to come to a climax. And I really wish the animal companions had a more constructive role than occasionally helping to fend off predators/enemies. But I like strong magic books where everything is about it whereas this has magic in the role of "as needed" rather than something to take advantage of.Overall I love the story, even if the writing isn't quite to my taste, and I wish I'd known about the bundle before buying the books separately :)