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Then check out the book reviews on Amazon. Talion is currently rated 4. The female characters are interesting, and the prose style is great. Maddox has a keen eye for details and an ear for effective, fast-moving dialogue. Meet Rad Sanders, the most terrifying serial killer you will ever encounter, in a thriller unlike any you have ever read… Lu Jakes lives with her alcoholic father and abusive stepmother, Noreen, at Hidden Creek Lodge in the Utah mountains. For Lisa has been followed by Rad Sanders, a sadistic killer who has plans for the girls — sick plans that will drag them and their families to the very brink of hell.
Rad stalks Lu and Lisa, waiting for his moment, certain that his deadly plan cannot fail. But unknown to Rad, Lu has a secret. She can see things that nobody else can see: But are these spirits real or a trick of the mind? It is a book that will make you want to sleep with all the lights on — if you can sleep at all.. Read more on Amazon.
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. There is a lot of potential in this book. The author has created a world that feels very alive. The characters are somewhat one-dimensional, but that may be fixed in later books. I have two major issues with this book. The first is that the author creates the world and its history by telling long stories.
While those stories are very helpful to the reader in understanding, they take away from continuing the plot. At the same time, there is so much that the author left out. Kael and so the reader is given crumbs of information, but rather than force the issue and get answers, Kael just drops it and moves on.
This would not be so frustrating, except that early in the book, Kael clearly does magic, but that is never again addressed. The second issue is how long everything takes. The author felt the need to discuss every event during th journey to the capital in painful detail. Some events needed to be told, but I could not care less about the days of nothing but riding. I wish I could have loved this book. There is so much here to enjoy. Instead, I kept checking the percentile bar on the bottom to find out how much more I needed to plod through. One person found this helpful. I liked this book a lot!
Nice characters and settings. Main character's "this isn't happening to me" narration is getting tired, but it's likely to change in sequels. One thing that bugged me was the "character telling story of some historical person in first person perspective". This happened a few times, where a character telling a story discussed the private thoughts of the subject of the story that they couldn't possibly have known.
It really dragged me out of the story. It's like if I were going to tell a story about Abraham Lincoln and said: I wish that Amazon let us do reviews in increments of half-stars.
This is much more of a three and a half star book. It is reasonably well written. The dialogue in the beginning makes some rookie mistakes. The characters grin and smile too much when they speak. It seemed like the author was looking in his thesaurus for different words so that he would have to use the verb "say. And at least what the characters say is said well enough. It's never great, but it's fine. People have compared this author to Eddings, and to Tolkien. There is a reason for that. The hero, young Garion, quickly meets up with an old man visited him often as a youth - we'll call him BelGandalf, and his manservant who only appears to be a mute, Aragorn.
This is of course kept hidden from Garion. It's derivative and not as imaginative as I would like. In all fairness, most fantasy is derivative. There are only so many tropes, and let's face it - Tolkien casts such a shadow over the genre that it's hard to avoid even where an author tries. Nevertheless, it can still be done well even if it is derivative, and this book isn't done as well as I would like. This book lacks the depth and feel of Tolkien.
It also lacks the spark and humor of Edding's Belgariad. Fortunately, it also lacks the terrible humor of Edding's later work. I give this four stars, not because I really liked it - it was okay - but because outside of the dialogue problems in the beginning, it's good enough. No major editing errors, the dialogue is okay, it's got some polish, the voice that the author uses isn't annoying - nothing particularly wrong in this book. But there isn't much that stands out, either. It's a bland, generic epic. I liked it just enough - and it got better sufficiently - that I'm seriously considering buying the sequels.
The races, allegiances, towns, landscapes and creeds all mesh together quite nicely into an excellent fantasy setting. Kael Brelgson is, unbeknownst to him, destined for greatness. What starts for him as his first trading journey turns into revelation and catastrophe as he learns there is more to the world beyond his little town of Kelky and deals with the sudden death of a loved one. A lot is revealed in this first book, mostly through flashbacks and lessons taught to the boy by his newfound companions.
The world and setting is laid out for the reader comprehensibly and Daniel McHugh paints a wonderful picture of character and landscape. The only problem I have with the book is that while you learn a LOT about the Seraphim's world, the main storyline suffers for it as the frequent flashbacks and history lessons cause it to move terribly slowly. It seemed like a page introduction rather that a standalone novel. It ends kind of abruptly, but it just made me want to hurry and purchase the next book to find out what happens next which I'm assuming was Mr.
All in all I really enjoyed The Merchant and the Menace and I will definitely be purchasing the rest of the books in the series. Daniel McHugh has written a very good start to a story bound for greatness, and I'm more than happy to follow along for the ride. See all 45 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Set up a giveaway.