Harro
As all the others, a great page turner, hard to put away once you get into it with many promises for more to come in the next ones.
Great book, sucks you in and doesn't let go.
Can't wait for the next book to be released!
Mandatory stuff first:
I saw a chart on Reddit to guide you to a good book to read, came out on this book, but couldn't find an epub version, placed a comment about this and Zack contacted me and then supplied me with an epub version. Only asking me to write a review.
So here it is, my spoiler free review.
When I started reading I instantly was reminded of mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, but that quickly went away when I started to understand the magic system more and more and I really liked what I saw.
The story is good and switches perspectives at the right cliffhangers making it hard to stop reading. Personally I wouldn't have minded a bit more world/character building before thing really started going, but it wasn't lacking in any way.
I can recommend this book to people who like high fantasy and good magic systems. Also make sure you have the time to read, because stopping can be pretty hard at times.
I saw a post on Reddit that the book was on sale, after a search it was available on kobo too for about the same price. Decided to buy it and read it whenever I felt like it.
Now I'm finished and my feelings are mixed. The same way I felt like after finishing the Gardens if the Moon by Steven Erikson, What I mean by that is that it is written as a story where as a reader you lack information that is common knowledge for the characters. But by just continuing to read you slowly get a better sense of the factions and the people.
Having said that, I do wish there was a bit more character building, the motivation of the characters was sometimes a bit hard to grasp.
Merged review:
I saw a post on Reddit that the book was on sale, after a search it was available on kobo too for about the same price. Decided to buy it and read it whenever I felt like it.
Now I'm finished and my feelings are mixed. The same way I felt like after finishing the Gardens if the Moon by Steven Erikson, What I mean by that is that it is written as a story where as a reader you lack information that is common knowledge for the characters. But by just continuing to read you slowly get a better sense of the factions and the people.
Having said that, I do wish there was a bit more character building, the motivation of the characters was sometimes a bit hard to grasp.
good story, but sometimes I felt some characters had some sudden personality/affection shifts that came out of nowhere. Also time skips at weird places that where sometimes a bit strange and then learning of certain events through other character viewpoints.
But I enjoyed the general story and was looking forward to reading about certain characters; too bad Harro (hey that's me!) didn't feature a bit more; maybe in the next book ;-)
The story has a good base, but it feels like the main character spend the whole book reacting, he has no initiative of his own, no clear motivation except react as best as possible.
Mixed feelings, some stories where good, other less so, but reading them all after eachother one thing becomes obvious, they all say things the same way, even with all the different backgrounds and lack of social skills/contact they use the same endearments.
The stories around all that are good, but some scenes feel like more of the same and I just had to skim through.
