Review: Well beyond expectations with wonderful imagination
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
My first thoughts when considering this book was "bleh" -- another fantasy / knight/ kids book?Amazon has been recommending that I read this book for a few months.....I held off until it was priced at $1.99.  The book is worth well more than that.It's captivating from the start, almost an orson scott card feel to it with the main character, and it develops until a nice romp of adventure without getting honestly too fantastical.  I found myself much more intrigued than I hoped for.There's a reasonable story line going all through with appropriate start, middle, and conclusion.  I found it very coherent.The only areas that I somewhat didn't like was the coverage of the "bad guys" so to speak....in a few cases, explanations were either slightly too simplistic, moralizing, or non understandable.  But this happened only modestly.I would have hoped for a longer book....I think if it had several hundred pages more to expand upon the ending and really push the storyline along with some more profound content, we might have the working of a five star book.As it is, I'm giving it a solid 4.Hopefully, there will be a second book in this series and it will answer the potential possible here.  Best of luck to the author.