Review: Not my cup of fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2013
Too much battle, depression, amnesia in the first part of the book.  I think if some of the last portion of the book had been switched to the first part of the book then the story would have tracked from the beginning.  I liked large chunks of this book, but was frustrated with the pace of discovery.  While it took a couple of minutes to figure out who the main character was, and less time than that to figure out who the silver enforcer had to be, the reader is two-thirds through the book before having any idea of the qualities of the primary villain.  Once you have those then the story jells and all of the characters gain depth.  The magic has a good starting point, and I'm sure the author knows what the rules are, just wished he'd given us more clues.  Some of the characters made no sense at all until a random statement made me ratchet the ages of the combatants from the late twentys early thirtys down to the late teens early twentys.  Unfortunately, the age clue is several chapters into the book.  I enjoy magic/fantasy but I do like to be a bit removed from the despair of battle when possible.