Title: The saturday morning cartoon of Lord of the Rings
Product review: This book is alright as youth fiction; it's not entirely dissimilar to a Heinlein youth novel. The kids in the book drink beer, so it's got that against it, but other than that, it's spot-on for teen fantasy.But the reviews don't paint it as such.From the *incredibly* cliche dialogue to the entire scene and setting, it's sort of like Feist quit making cartoons for Hanna-Barbera in the mid-80's, and then went on to write this book.Meanwhile, it's enormously derivative of Tolkien. It's entirely Tolkien's world that the characters inhabit. The only twist is the parallel world, but they don't see much of that in this book at all.3-stars, if you like predictable pulp fantasy with dialogue cliche enough to be youth fiction. 2-stars, otherwise.
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