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Review title: Are we speaking the same English?
Product review: I've read thousand of fantasy novels, but this series is definitely one to avoid. The author has fallen in love with a handful of old English words and she uses them ad nauseum. I think I've read the word ken about 3000 times and there isn't a Ken character in the book. If you love the words ken, laird, och, ye, and bairn then by all means buy this series. Kate Forsyth uses them liberally even though they went out of use centuries ago. The multiple characters have as much depth as a pancake. I'm not sure who we're supposed to be rooting for here. You can almost read the first and last chapter of each book and just skip everything in between. Nothing happens that you'll need to know for the next book. I've been rooting for the adversaries in this whole series. If they could wipe out all these characters maybe the new cast would be more interesting.
