Forest of Souls

A classic chosen one type adventure yarn with some neat world building which helps to avoid some of the tropes of the genre. The repressed minority theme is well done, with a well built and designed magic system with some proper hard magic elements form the basis of the story - nothing spectacularly original, but the sense of the world that has been built with its distinctive character gives a good quality to the story.

There are some fun twists and turns on the way allowing what could be a derivative storyline to maintain some good freshness. An enjoyable and easy to read story that kept me interested throughout

The characters didn't capture me and the book is way too slow. I don't think I will continue with the series. This really makes me sad because I was looking forward to reading this book.

I had a hard time rating this book.
There was parts of it that I really, really liked and then... Sirscha made so many stupid decisions.
Sigh.

Review coming soon (hopefully a coherent one).