Review: A Well Thought-Out Fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2012
My four-star rating ignores the numerous typos and other formal gaffes in this manuscript.  The long paragraphs, while slightly archaic, are charming and accord superbly with the loquacious oral tradition the author is working in.  Often, self-published authors have neither the time nor the money to hire an editor.  But denigrating a book for those reasons is like judging a great actor on a first take.  This is a well-crafted fantasy with an engaging heroine.  It is original, exciting, by turns cynical and romantic, and demonstrates that a lot of thought has gone into imagining and generating the tale's fantastic landscape.  But the exterior and cultural landscapes are as well thought-out as the interior, psychological ones.  You would do far better with something like this, than with some mass-produced, carefully edited piece of derivative drivel.