Review: Some great ornery gits
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
A sprawling epic with lots of unexpected twists and turns. The thing I most like about this series is the characters -- particularly the more ornery of them. Mathias has some great dialogue for these types, and they win the reader's sympathy despite being so foul-mouthed and grumpy (and by foul-mouthed, I mean they say "fargin" a fair bit).The dragon scenes are described with great skill -- there's a real sense of the size and power. Battles are fluidly written and brutal, and there's a deceptively easy style to the prose, especially in the opening scenes that introduce two of the principal characters.