Original sentence: "It's not often I do reviews, it has to be a terrific book or something so monumentally awful that I feel compelled."This is vintage fantasy.A small warning:- the language can be tricky, if you're not used to it.After all, she must have improved.As a lover of classic literature and fantasy, this was the best possible amalgamation.As well as the negative.But this was a poingnant, evocative story and I can't wait for the Well of Tears.Every one gives it 2 or 1 stars.I've read this author's previous trilogy and it follows along a similar style, even if about different character's etc.If only I'd read those first.In short, the book is truly awful.It seems that Dart Thornton has the unique ability to sit at her computer and bash out thousands of words effortlessly, with little editing afterwards, and that's exactly what she does.It's hard to believe the glowing reviews, but then I checked Amazon.Often instead of giving the reader a quick description of a place, object or person, she'll babble on with a long list, and generally that long, boring list is for something of no importance to the story.On the positive:.On the way they are ambushed by Marauders, mountain folk that are deformed and spend their lives pillaging villages and unwary travellers.So a new epic tale by Dart Thornon on the shelf.The Iron Tree, I'm afraid, falls into the latter.The plot moves along with all the consistency of concrete, full of cliches and romanticised characters you'd expect in a Mills and Boon throw-a-away paperback.The writing, as in Dart Thornton's previous books, is tiresome and pretentious, using  words even an English teacher would need a dictionary to understand, and long, rambling passages that go absolutely nowhere.There are many mixed criticisms to the novel.What the hell, I bought it.While I barely managed to scrape through book one of the Bitterbynde trilogy, finding it far too wordy and dull to continue to book two, I recently found myself in need of another epic  to fill my train ride to work.com just to see what reviews they had
Edited sentence: On the way they are ambushed by Marauders, mountain folk that are deformed and spend their lives pillaging villages and unwary travelers