Review: Wasn't sure at first but it won me over.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2012
This book was free so I thought I'd give it a go. I wasn't too I pressed with the first few chapters and almost stopped reading. Which is very rare. I've discarded maybe three books in my entire reading life before reaching the end. Trust me, I've read some doozies. So, I persisted and I'm kinda glad that I did.It was an interesting world with some interesting and creative races. I read this one and the next two all in one day.Cons: some of the situations could have been fleshed out more, there seemed to be a lot of easy rescues going on.  The characters were a little one dimensional for me. Not much going on in character development seeing as the books cover quite a few years.There was way too much sex. Not hot, sweaty, thrilling sex which would be good fantasy fodder - that would have been good. It was just boring sex, all the time. I started skipping over those bits.SPOILERS: Everything was just a little too convenient. The battles didn't last long. There were no truly meaningful deaths. The characters who were supposed to be villains didn't do anything terribly evil before they changed their tunes and joined the good side.  Except for the main villain - he was quite horrible - yet his demise was quite disappointing.Pros: I liked the authors imagination. Cool wavy coloured magic floating around. Interesting creatures.If you can gloss over the cons, use your imagination a bit and skip past the boring sex scenes it's an okay $8 investment for three books.