Title: Greatly Disappointed
Product review: I picked up this book when I saw emblazoned on the cover "Epic Fantasy of the Year". Now that's saying something. But I have to say I was greatly disappointed in this first book by a seemingly promising author. He has taken the all of the fun and wonder out of epic fantasy, and made it into a dark and dreary realm where I doubt many people will want to linger. I thought the setup, where the sorceresses were exiled, had promise, but it quickly degenerated into a war between the sexes, and a very nasty one at that. The scene where the sorceresses' army invades our hero's homeland is gratuitious, far beyond what I feel had to be there to get the point across. And the connection that was made between the coven's lust for violence and their sexuality was just too much. So much could have been done with this novel, it certainly had potential and other people may find it complusively readable, but it wallows in depravity, and it is not something I'll be reading again anytime soon.
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