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The Dragon Mage Wars #1
Lusam: The Dragon Mage Wars Book One
Lusam grew up in the relative safety of the Elveen mountains with his grandmother. She taught him the basics of magic, and discovered quite by accident, that he possessed a unique skill never seen before, the ability to hide his magical aura from the mage-sight of others. Dark secrets surround Lusam's origins, and the dark agents of the Empire will stop at nothing to kill Lusam. But before Lusam could be taught all he needed to know about his past, his grandmother unexpectedly dies of a fever, and Lusam finds himself homeless on the unforgiving streets of Helveel. Unbeknown to Lusam, the only thing keeping him alive is a promise he made to his grandmother, to always hide his aura, no matter what. Lusam meets and befriends a young thief fleeing her old city of Stelgad, before making a magical discovery that will change both their lives forever, and possibly the fate of the entire world.
339 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 27, 2015
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January 25, 2016
Truly awful. Although I have to confess I did not finish reading the Kindle Sample.
The author commits the rather boring sin of telling everything rather than showing. And what we are shown is a sweet and perfect 12 yr old who although he is living on the street and is in constant danger of death by exposure or starvation refuses to steal because his (also saintly) aunt taught him that way.
I gave up when we are told about the hide and seek game when Lusam discovers his ability to hide his aura.
Scenario:
Grandmother knows that no one can hide their aura.
8-10 year old runs hundreds of feet into the woods.
Grandmother cannot sense child's aura.
Grandmother has always been able to sense the aura before, and I reiterate, she believes the aura cannot be hidden.
Any author that I want to read should be able to get inside the head of their characters and what an opportunity for drama and exposition.
Rather than fear for her grandson's safety, she is puzzled, keeps playing and afterwards encourages him to keep hiding. I mean this would me a BIG DEAL...
Lusam is too perfect and sweet. He belongs in a story for 10yr olds where he would be believeable.
Thank Goodness for Kindle Sample. I suspect, going by how thsis book is rated, that the author is a genuinely lovely person with many friends that love the author dearly.
The author commits the rather boring sin of telling everything rather than showing. And what we are shown is a sweet and perfect 12 yr old who although he is living on the street and is in constant danger of death by exposure or starvation refuses to steal because his (also saintly) aunt taught him that way.
I gave up when we are told about the hide and seek game when Lusam discovers his ability to hide his aura.
Scenario:
Grandmother knows that no one can hide their aura.
8-10 year old runs hundreds of feet into the woods.
Grandmother cannot sense child's aura.
Grandmother has always been able to sense the aura before, and I reiterate, she believes the aura cannot be hidden.
Any author that I want to read should be able to get inside the head of their characters and what an opportunity for drama and exposition.
Rather than fear for her grandson's safety, she is puzzled, keeps playing and afterwards encourages him to keep hiding. I mean this would me a BIG DEAL...
Lusam is too perfect and sweet. He belongs in a story for 10yr olds where he would be believeable.
Thank Goodness for Kindle Sample. I suspect, going by how thsis book is rated, that the author is a genuinely lovely person with many friends that love the author dearly.
November 21, 2017
I wouldn’t normally write something like this but as I paid full retail price for, albeit two books and a teaser of the third in one, I expected a much higher level of writing.
Spoilers. Obviously.
Apologies if I misspell any character or place names as I have not seen the print edition.
Plot
I found the plot tolerable but horribly derivative. The story follows a group of protagonists including a mage, rogue, paladin and eventually an archer whose adversaries are a heartless guild of assassin/thieves and a group of necromancers. It’s essentially a party plucked out of any fantasy video game or D&D campaign.
Lusam himself is a cookie cutter super hero chosen by destiny. Raised in isolation, unaware of his immense power, by a faux grandparent he lives a humble life in the forest. Scared for his survival his ‘grandmother’ convinces him to conceal his abilities and does not train him, but don’t worry he finds a magic book to download all sorts of grand sorcery into his brain later on. This also saves any time explaining how he actually performs any magic and instead he can just cast spells at will.
Lusam ticks just about every Mary Sue box there is and then some, so virtuous and well raised he lived as a street urchin for two years and refused to steal to feed himself. Lusam always makes the right decision over one that might humanise him and make the character more believable. There will presumably be some extravagant reveal where he is a ‘dragon mage’, or some other supernatural being, and the cornerstone of world survival in a later book that I will not be reading.
The paper thin cult of antagonists (led by lord evil fantasy name generator) may as well have been named the hooded, devil worshipping, demon summoning group of evil. There is a feeble attempt to humanise their interactions by repeated mentions of a family to return to, but they’re bleak and infrequent at best.
Other popular tropes include a forced love story, faux medieval Europe and shapeshifting deities.
I could go on.
Writing
This is where the book really fails. The author commits the unforgiveable sin of relaying all the information in long walls of text and through detailed tellings of backstories rather than allowing them to progress organically throughout the novel. We know Lusams entire upbringing from a chapter telling us, it’s far more interesting to let it out in drips during dialogue rather than tip the entire bucket on the reader as early as possible. In addition to this, we are told everything that goes on around the characters rather than showing us, allow us to use our own imagination.
Examples:
“He quickly reduced the temperature within his forcefield and began to freeze the water inside. As the water froze it quickly expanded within the fissure, creating a great force that pushed against both sides of the rock. Until, finally, it split with a loud cracking sound.”
Don’t tell us what is happening to the rock. Show us. The rock cracked like a hatching egg. Shards of rock crumbled from the shell and exposed the block of ice that forced itself through the gaps like an overstuffed sausage. Etc. You get the idea.
“The boy deftly caught the coin in mid-air.”
The boy snapped the coin from the air like a frog catching a fly.
I’ve been presented first drafts asking for advice and editing that have been more formulated than this. Words are repeated sometimes as many as five times in a few lines. I even transcribed a couple of examples.
‘Barrel’
“Skelly walked over to the huge barrel on the left and removed a knife from his belt. He reached around the side of the huge barrel and put his knife into the groove of one of the steel hoops that held the barrel together. There was a loud click and the entire lid of the barrel swung inwards creating a huge round doorway. Hanging inside the barrel were three lantern…”
‘Shield’
“As each blast struck his shield he knew if he was only shielding himself that it would have affected him much less, but with such a large area to protect it quickly sapped his strength. Blast after blast pounded at his shield as they ran on towards their goal. At one point he turned and fired a shot back at his pursuers, only to see it fizzle on their shield with little or no effect. Noticing the bombardment intensify on his shield…”
The author may well have been trying to get in every adverb in the dictionary for all we know. Characters could not perform the simplest tasks without doing them slowly, quickly, curiously, gingerly, sheepishly, amiably, suspiciously, briskly, confidently etc. Count the number of times the group does something ‘quietly’ in the chapter where they infiltrate the Hawk’s Guild. A lot of the times these are just unnecessary. We don’t need to know that Skelly got off the horse quickly or walked over to Neela slowly. At one point Zed even grins evilly.
Rant over. I didn’t want to write such a negative review of this, but I really expected more from Audible when I could have paid the same price and received a Lord of The Rings book.
Spoilers. Obviously.
Apologies if I misspell any character or place names as I have not seen the print edition.
Plot
I found the plot tolerable but horribly derivative. The story follows a group of protagonists including a mage, rogue, paladin and eventually an archer whose adversaries are a heartless guild of assassin/thieves and a group of necromancers. It’s essentially a party plucked out of any fantasy video game or D&D campaign.
Lusam himself is a cookie cutter super hero chosen by destiny. Raised in isolation, unaware of his immense power, by a faux grandparent he lives a humble life in the forest. Scared for his survival his ‘grandmother’ convinces him to conceal his abilities and does not train him, but don’t worry he finds a magic book to download all sorts of grand sorcery into his brain later on. This also saves any time explaining how he actually performs any magic and instead he can just cast spells at will.
Lusam ticks just about every Mary Sue box there is and then some, so virtuous and well raised he lived as a street urchin for two years and refused to steal to feed himself. Lusam always makes the right decision over one that might humanise him and make the character more believable. There will presumably be some extravagant reveal where he is a ‘dragon mage’, or some other supernatural being, and the cornerstone of world survival in a later book that I will not be reading.
The paper thin cult of antagonists (led by lord evil fantasy name generator) may as well have been named the hooded, devil worshipping, demon summoning group of evil. There is a feeble attempt to humanise their interactions by repeated mentions of a family to return to, but they’re bleak and infrequent at best.
Other popular tropes include a forced love story, faux medieval Europe and shapeshifting deities.
I could go on.
Writing
This is where the book really fails. The author commits the unforgiveable sin of relaying all the information in long walls of text and through detailed tellings of backstories rather than allowing them to progress organically throughout the novel. We know Lusams entire upbringing from a chapter telling us, it’s far more interesting to let it out in drips during dialogue rather than tip the entire bucket on the reader as early as possible. In addition to this, we are told everything that goes on around the characters rather than showing us, allow us to use our own imagination.
Examples:
“He quickly reduced the temperature within his forcefield and began to freeze the water inside. As the water froze it quickly expanded within the fissure, creating a great force that pushed against both sides of the rock. Until, finally, it split with a loud cracking sound.”
Don’t tell us what is happening to the rock. Show us. The rock cracked like a hatching egg. Shards of rock crumbled from the shell and exposed the block of ice that forced itself through the gaps like an overstuffed sausage. Etc. You get the idea.
“The boy deftly caught the coin in mid-air.”
The boy snapped the coin from the air like a frog catching a fly.
I’ve been presented first drafts asking for advice and editing that have been more formulated than this. Words are repeated sometimes as many as five times in a few lines. I even transcribed a couple of examples.
‘Barrel’
“Skelly walked over to the huge barrel on the left and removed a knife from his belt. He reached around the side of the huge barrel and put his knife into the groove of one of the steel hoops that held the barrel together. There was a loud click and the entire lid of the barrel swung inwards creating a huge round doorway. Hanging inside the barrel were three lantern…”
‘Shield’
“As each blast struck his shield he knew if he was only shielding himself that it would have affected him much less, but with such a large area to protect it quickly sapped his strength. Blast after blast pounded at his shield as they ran on towards their goal. At one point he turned and fired a shot back at his pursuers, only to see it fizzle on their shield with little or no effect. Noticing the bombardment intensify on his shield…”
The author may well have been trying to get in every adverb in the dictionary for all we know. Characters could not perform the simplest tasks without doing them slowly, quickly, curiously, gingerly, sheepishly, amiably, suspiciously, briskly, confidently etc. Count the number of times the group does something ‘quietly’ in the chapter where they infiltrate the Hawk’s Guild. A lot of the times these are just unnecessary. We don’t need to know that Skelly got off the horse quickly or walked over to Neela slowly. At one point Zed even grins evilly.
Rant over. I didn’t want to write such a negative review of this, but I really expected more from Audible when I could have paid the same price and received a Lord of The Rings book.
July 23, 2020
I feel so mean giving 2 stars - someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble to write these books, and yet... I’d have more guilt if someone read this book thinking it was decent... I bought book 1 and 2 cheap on audio. Book 2 has now started and maybe it will improve... it’s not a terrible story, it’s just not interesting. Very little has happened. And there’s far too much focus on romance to be a kids book, so teen maybe? I just can’t see it holding the interest of a teen, and there’s 5 books in this series... He’s a wizard in a time when magic is banned - and he’s super strong. Surprise. She’s an assassin. People are chasing them. Yawn. I couldn’t give any spoilers even if I want to because that’s pretty much the whole story so far...
May 22, 2016
Good story, not well written
I enjoyed the book and probably will read the others. However many aspects of the dialogue and narration leave much to be desired.
There is little description of the magic and how it works, the dialogue seems contrived and overly simple and the book as a whole moves to quickly without any real development of the characters.
I enjoyed the book and probably will read the others. However many aspects of the dialogue and narration leave much to be desired.
There is little description of the magic and how it works, the dialogue seems contrived and overly simple and the book as a whole moves to quickly without any real development of the characters.
June 14, 2019
My review from
I chose this book because my mom made me. Cant wait to read the second one
I'm excited!!
Yay woo hoo
I chose this book because my mom made me. Cant wait to read the second one
I'm excited!!
Yay woo hoo
December 12, 2017
Narration is perfect, demonstrating a commitment to excellence. Storytelling is imaginative and vivid, but some plot holes exist. Writing quality is weak. I did read books 3-4 after listening to this 2-volume audiobook, because the books are free with kindle unlimited. There are expected to be six books in the series.
Told in 3rd person through various viewpoints. Set in a fictional world of kings, castles, mages, dragons, and gods engaged in sibling rivalry. Main characters include a 15-year-old homeless boy, a street girl, a warrior paladin, an evil warlord emperor, etc. The main characters form a fellowship, central to the series.
The hero Lusam develops his powers too fast, too easily. Find an ancient book. Absorb its magical gifts. Lather, rinse, repeat. The romance occurs too easily. The kissing and blushing (and implied sex) gets old. As for the marriage proposal, I was almost shocked at the author’s bad timing, given the circumstances.
On the upside, the warrior paladin (Renn) is totally credible.
The story is engrossing at times. However, the writing quality is just mediocre. A bit too much exposition. Misplaced commas and anachronistic language. Renn seems to only know one way to address people: “old friend” crops up several times in short conversations.
The author repeatedly has the comrades roaring with laughter at things that are barely worth a smirk. Laughing until they cry. Nothing wrong with a simple smile. A smirk. A chuckle. Whatever.
Lusam strangely laughs at painful or discomforting accidents, like getting dunked, or getting dragged through the mud by a galloping horse. Saying that characters laugh does not comedy make.
But the big problem is the Empire’s goal, to open a rift to the Netherworld. Are all these mages suicidal idiots?
Told in 3rd person through various viewpoints. Set in a fictional world of kings, castles, mages, dragons, and gods engaged in sibling rivalry. Main characters include a 15-year-old homeless boy, a street girl, a warrior paladin, an evil warlord emperor, etc. The main characters form a fellowship, central to the series.
The hero Lusam develops his powers too fast, too easily. Find an ancient book. Absorb its magical gifts. Lather, rinse, repeat. The romance occurs too easily. The kissing and blushing (and implied sex) gets old. As for the marriage proposal, I was almost shocked at the author’s bad timing, given the circumstances.
On the upside, the warrior paladin (Renn) is totally credible.
The story is engrossing at times. However, the writing quality is just mediocre. A bit too much exposition. Misplaced commas and anachronistic language. Renn seems to only know one way to address people: “old friend” crops up several times in short conversations.
The author repeatedly has the comrades roaring with laughter at things that are barely worth a smirk. Laughing until they cry. Nothing wrong with a simple smile. A smirk. A chuckle. Whatever.
Lusam strangely laughs at painful or discomforting accidents, like getting dunked, or getting dragged through the mud by a galloping horse. Saying that characters laugh does not comedy make.
But the big problem is the Empire’s goal, to open a rift to the Netherworld. Are all these mages suicidal idiots?
April 12, 2024
I really enjoyed these books ... I read the whole 6. Yes there were times that I was annoyed by the writing style where the author would go over details like a TV series used to do a review of what happened the episode before but he would do it at different times through the books and it was annoying as I, the reader was already aware of the many over recapped events. Some parts where the main character was overly stupid and whiny BUT over all it was a very good series. The story at times got a bit boring and a few times I almost DNF .. but pushed through those moments and near the end ... I was almost in tears due to the story line. The story was light hearted and meshed well, great supporting characters ... But again I enjoyed this series. I do recommend it, it's not the greatest of books but the end definitely can open this up to a whole new string of books which I do hope the author will do. However if you do continue to write more, please make the main character behave like a grown up and not like a whiny kid, especially his 'partner' I get why she can't always go certain places for risk of her life and she doesn't have the means to protect herself ... I know it, everyone else knows it and she knows it herself but she keeps acting way over the top annoying. We get it, you love him but damn calm down. SPOILER .... LIKE FOR EXAMPLE she can't go to the into the actual dragons lair she complains etc etc it's explained why she can't but she just overly complains. You know love is also not putting the person you love into unnecessary danger too so it would have been nice that she just accepted it. Things like this are sometimes easier to write than always an angry complainer. But besides that .. great book lol
September 18, 2023
This book is very poorly written, and I know this is his first book, so im going to read the rest of the series. But u can definitely tell the female character was written by a man. The characters hardly have interesting qualities, let alone personality. Lusam is just the smart kid that gets lucky and everything is handed to him like a freaking book full of magic spells mysteriously was right there and some random stranger decided to take orphan homeless kids into his house and house them in the basement was so unrealistic. Neala was a "fiery" person she picked fights with everyone even though shes 16 she acts like everybody should respect her like of course if u walk into a weapons shop as a child their not going to take you seriously i dont understand how she has such a fiery temper but next to Lusam she gets a downgraded personality trying to fit the mold of the perfect female lead. They also met as homeless kids that have been starving, and Lusam is like omg that girls so pretty, shes homeless dirty and starving shes not going to be pretty shes going to be crusty and dusty
Very unrealisitic had a hard time reading
Very unrealisitic had a hard time reading
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 13, 2018
Outstanding Story
This was a very entertaining action packed story. It is about a orphaned boy with mage powers he has kept hidden without understanding why he has to hide as he has promised his dead grandmother he would. When he does use them to save himself and his girlfriend, countless evil empire agents try to kill him. If he is allowed to grow, he will save the world... Great Story.
I first saw this series when it only had two books and tucked it away on my wishlist until it had more books completed. I am so glad I did...This Author loves cliff hanger endings, and I would have been so pissed I might not have continued reading...well I would have under protest. PLEASE STOP DOING THAT. There is a reason why people like Netflix better than regular shows. Binges
This was a very entertaining action packed story. It is about a orphaned boy with mage powers he has kept hidden without understanding why he has to hide as he has promised his dead grandmother he would. When he does use them to save himself and his girlfriend, countless evil empire agents try to kill him. If he is allowed to grow, he will save the world... Great Story.
I first saw this series when it only had two books and tucked it away on my wishlist until it had more books completed. I am so glad I did...This Author loves cliff hanger endings, and I would have been so pissed I might not have continued reading...well I would have under protest. PLEASE STOP DOING THAT. There is a reason why people like Netflix better than regular shows. Binges
February 17, 2025
Interesting, but far from captivating. I probably wouldn't have read book 2, except that I bought a publisher's pack that contained books 1-2. While book 1 was not great, book 2 actually was. It was certainly a smart move to put 1 & 2 together, because I like 2 so much that I already bought book 3.
In book 1, the main character, Lusam, has far more and better magic than any other mage on the planet. The antagonists are killing all mages at birth, but fortunately Lusam has developed a way to hide the fact that he is a mage, and so he and his incredible power escapes the crosshairs of the antagonists. Unfortunately, his training hits a speed bump and he must self-train through reading, which will slow down his progress. It also makes book 1 fairly uneventful.
Book 2 starts with a task/rescue operation which makes the second book far more enteretaining.
In book 1, the main character, Lusam, has far more and better magic than any other mage on the planet. The antagonists are killing all mages at birth, but fortunately Lusam has developed a way to hide the fact that he is a mage, and so he and his incredible power escapes the crosshairs of the antagonists. Unfortunately, his training hits a speed bump and he must self-train through reading, which will slow down his progress. It also makes book 1 fairly uneventful.
Book 2 starts with a task/rescue operation which makes the second book far more enteretaining.
March 16, 2017
I'll all for a trash novel, that just tells the story and it's fun but doesn't require thought... But this wasn't that kind of book. This book had my three biggest pet peeves, it had long back-stories for every new character, everyone spoke the same, and it had characters doing the "right" thing for the "right" reasons.
There are better ways of telling a character's back-story and motives than just listing them upon meeting. It seems lazy that I know everyone, within two pages of meeting them. Maybe a flashback, and show me how they learned how to fight, not just tell me in a couple lines.
Everyone spoke the King's English, everyone is educated as hell, even the street kids. Makes it hard to treat them as individuals, when they're all the same.
The main character does everything right... This person, who never does the wrong thing, doesn't exist. It's too unrealistic. Even when he's starving, he still does the right thing because that's what his dead grandmother told him to do? Really? He's a goody goody because he's "supposed" to be, a hero cliche, but no one actually acts like that.
If you liked this story, I'm curious why... I read Jim Butcher and Faith Hunter for series that I can cruise through without thinking too much, so I'm not judging anyone for liking this, but I gave it an honest chance, then gave up, it was just a series of cliches mixed with no character development. If you saw something else, I would like to know what I missed.
There are better ways of telling a character's back-story and motives than just listing them upon meeting. It seems lazy that I know everyone, within two pages of meeting them. Maybe a flashback, and show me how they learned how to fight, not just tell me in a couple lines.
Everyone spoke the King's English, everyone is educated as hell, even the street kids. Makes it hard to treat them as individuals, when they're all the same.
The main character does everything right... This person, who never does the wrong thing, doesn't exist. It's too unrealistic. Even when he's starving, he still does the right thing because that's what his dead grandmother told him to do? Really? He's a goody goody because he's "supposed" to be, a hero cliche, but no one actually acts like that.
If you liked this story, I'm curious why... I read Jim Butcher and Faith Hunter for series that I can cruise through without thinking too much, so I'm not judging anyone for liking this, but I gave it an honest chance, then gave up, it was just a series of cliches mixed with no character development. If you saw something else, I would like to know what I missed.
October 21, 2020
Good for teenage readers
Three stars because as a long long time reader of science fiction, fantasy, westerns, historical fiction, etc. I can like reading a book like Harry Potter - and this one - now and then but they are not my favorite books. They just don't reach the adult level and offer too often tne same start with the same orphans or street children who discover hidden powers. Still, for teenage readers this could be a good series.
Three stars because as a long long time reader of science fiction, fantasy, westerns, historical fiction, etc. I can like reading a book like Harry Potter - and this one - now and then but they are not my favorite books. They just don't reach the adult level and offer too often tne same start with the same orphans or street children who discover hidden powers. Still, for teenage readers this could be a good series.
March 21, 2018
I love a good fantasy series and this one does not disappoint. The characters are well developed and believable. The story is told from different points of view. The world is so interesting. I can’t stop until I find out what will happen. Lots of twists and turns. I’m so happy there are 6 books to this series
August 16, 2019
This book was simply not good. The characters and their interactions were so ridiculous, I just couldn't finish the book. The author relies on the most amazing leaps of coincidence and luck to move the story along. I have heard better character and story development from my 7 year old daughter's story.
June 11, 2020
I liked the story, but a lot of the book felt forced instead or feeling natural. It built up too fast for the page count and story trying to be told. I felt the story in book one could have easily been several hundred more pages to fit all the missing details and it would have made all the difference
May 16, 2025
3.75 Not much happened and nothing is totally grabbing my attention yet. The world building so slow and a bit stereotypical for magical fantasy. Lusam and Neely have good personalities that are still typical of teenagers. Nothing is exactly stellar about it but there’s something about it that keeps me intrigued.
September 12, 2017
A very entertaining YA book, a good 3 1/2 star rating for Adult readers. I will not penalize it for the over done juvenile humor and implausible plot loopholes because I am not the target audience for this book / series.
October 30, 2017
"Couldn't put it down" kind of read
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and Lusam's story. There's such a mystery about Lusam and why he's so important it kept me reading all night.
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and Lusam's story. There's such a mystery about Lusam and why he's so important it kept me reading all night.
January 1, 2020
Such a well written interesting story. I am absolutely in love with Lusam! He sounds like the typical main character in most magic based books but out of all that books I've read in this genre lately, Lusam is my biggest crush!! Lol
March 22, 2020
I started it with great hopes. I got a lot of vibes from other fantasy series that just seemed to be too close at time. Lusam’s relationships were my biggest gripe, I’ve long since moved on from the love at first sight trope. I gave up. Maybe geared towards teens.
August 29, 2020
The plot of this book and series is very interesting, however the writing of the book, and details surrounding descriptions is disappointing and doesn't match the unique plot. The book repeats the exact same descriptions or conversations several times with short intervals which gets annoying especially since this happens in the same sentence, paragraph or chapter. The reuse of a lot of this makes the reader or in my case, listener feel that they're deaf so much so that we didn't hear and understand exactly what was said. My rating is based solely on the plot and nothing else.
December 10, 2022
I liked this story but 4 stars is rounding up a little. I can't say it was very exciting or edge of seat good but it was a solid story with pleasantly written characters.
I found the audiobook with book 1 and 2 together for 1 credit. It was a good choice! I'll continue to follow the series.
I found the audiobook with book 1 and 2 together for 1 credit. It was a good choice! I'll continue to follow the series.
May 26, 2017
Childish but readable.
July 18, 2017
Great start to this series. Good world building and interesting characters. Keen to read book 2
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August 20, 2017Simple and unbelievable. Maybe if I were 30 years younger I would have enjoyed it. Very much a children's book.
July 6, 2018
eh... an enjoyable enough story, however the wording can be a bit repetitive, and the audio intonation a little annoying at times.
November 18, 2018
Page after page of dialogue-less info dumping.
November 28, 2018
Great characters, plenty of action, interesting storyline, some mysteries yet to be solved and best of all a fun read. Will definitely read the sequel.
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