Review: Disturbing ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2012
What most struck me most about "Amber Magic" is how quickly with just a single choice an author can radically alter our opinions of their books. "Amber Magic" Isn't the most brilliant fantasy novel ever written, it's formulaic and the story encompasses what would normally pass for the first third of any fantasy book in the publishing world (i.e. simple boys destined to make a quest, something evil finds them and they must flee. That is this book in the series). But I found myself enjoying it and while the character development isn't top notch it was obviously strong enough that I was read to buy the next volume and continue reading the story, then in the last 15 or even 10 pages the author makes a choice which seems more like something that would occur in a "Dungeons and Dragons" game rather than something which seems fitting of the Robert Jordan high fantasy mode that the rest of the book is written in.I find myself unable to recommend this book despite the fact that I was enjoying until that choice was made (It was that jarring to me).