Title: Eldon, get a new editor!
Review: Basically, I agree with the comments of earlier reviews. This is not a good book. It is formulaic, cliched, and has nothing to say. Worse, it has all these faults spread over 712 pages, a very great deal of which should have been cut out from the endless pages of needless descriptions and pointless dialogueI read a lot of fantasy, much of it poor. Mr. Thompson seems like a writer whose editor needs to be given a stern talking-to about permitting a reasonably good new writer to clutter up a decent plot and unobjectionable characters with simply acres and acres of useless baggage. I usually love long books. I couldn't wait for this one to end. Literally. I quit on page 576. Did I miss the good stuff?
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