Title: I feel like this was written for 13 year olds
Review: Forgive me for reviewing this prematurely (I'm only a couple hundred pages in) but I can't help but feel like this book was written as either a "First fantasy" or a "alternative fantasy for people who don't want their kids reading fantasy because it's nothing but make believe". I can tell that the author did his research regarding the 30 years war, and while the struggles the "settlers" face are fleshed out quite believably the characters themselves are cliches. Maybe that was what Flint was trying to do, test our way of life against cultures of the past to see how they would react against each other, using stereotypical blue-collar workers as his lab rats, but if that's then this reader still can't help but find the book (and it's characters) unattractive. I'm going to finish it because I bought it at a friends suggestion, but this will be the last book of Flint's that I read.
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