Title: Disappointed This Avid Norton Fan
Product review: Some of Ms. Norton's collaborations "click" and some don't. This one really doesn't. There's the trademark cute and intelligent animals, the wisewoman (wysen-wyf, a title that kept giving me a mental image of one of those dried apple dolls), the Sulcar--uh, Sea-Rovers, and some palace intigue. But honestly there was too much happening and the authors did not draw it all together. The book lacked a sense of "place" which never happened with Witch World. It was very hard to get a sense of when the actions were occurring in relation to one another. And none of characters seem to come into focus.I really had to push myself to finish this book, which has never happened with a book that Ms. Norton has done alone, and I really don't care what happens in the rest of the proposed series.Guess I'll just have to wait for the second Edgehill/Norton book due out this month. I thought Shadow of Albion was a real feast and I'm eagerly awaiting the next one.
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