Title: Sluggish
Product review: The concept for this story is very promising--one boy DOESN'T have magic, as opposed to the predictable boy who DOES have magic. And the world was beautiful and interesting. But the writing was so sluggish, I couldn't get into it. The paragraphs were too loooooong for the target age group. The plot chugs along at an agonizingly slow pace. Even the action scenes are sluggish, rather than exciting. I tried skipping every other sentence. A good editor should have eliminated a quarter of the pages, which would have improved the pacing. It's a shame no one did, because the idea is worth the effort. Instead, the intriguing concept fails due to the slow pace. I read stacks of books every month, and it's extremely rare for me to stop in the middle . . . but this one did me in. I stopped half way through and put it back on the shelf. I didn't even read the back page to see how it ended, which shows how bored I was. Sorry.
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