Review: Starts out great....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2012
I fell in love with the the first book in this series. I literally could not put it down and was so caught up in the amazingly well thought out world it was set in. The thought behind the physics of magic was such a wonderful new direction and the main and supporting characters were interesting and engaging. Just could not put it down. I immediately bought and downloaded the other books in the series knowing i was going to be doing some marathon reading. I was certain I had finally found a new favorite author.Sadly this was not to be. somewhere along the middle of the second book the writing took a weird turn. I was almost convinced that the writer of the first book had suffered an accident and some ghost writer had taken over the series. What started out as epic serial fantasy slowly transformed into angsty slash fiction.It was so weird.I finished the second book thinking well maybe it was just a writer blurp and moved on the the third and the progression into angsty disordered plot-lines became worse.The once fluid story and characters devolved into a string of disassociated plot devices and the characters became two dimensional puppets for some sexually frustrated kids sexual fantasies.It became hard to keep track of the many plots and competing developments as they all segued into long uncharacteristic sexploration and repetitive show offing of "look at the cool thing I just did."And the major plot build ups that made you want to keep reading to see what happens all sputtered out loosely resolved secondary plots that took a back seat to the main character's sexual exploration.I actually had to force myself to finish the third book hoping it would get back on track. Only the originality and amazing quality of the first book kept me going. giving me hopes the author would go out and get laid so that he could stop taking his juvenile sexual frustrations out on print long enough to get back to the story.I apologize if I'm harsh on the writer. I honestly feel that he was on the track to being a epic fantasy writer and was so happy that a new and original world to explore was being opened to me.I honestly don't know what happened. So much disappointment now. The fourth book is just sitting in my kindle unread mocking me for the series it could have been. sigh.