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Review title: An blindingly bad book.
Product review: While derivative post-Tolkien fantasy continues to predominate in the marketplace, it is heartening to see someone who has done away with Tolkien altogether and derives only from Ray Feist, Anne McCaffrey, R. A. Salvatore, and Robert Jordan. Unintentionally funny in its badness, the only fantasy work I have read that made me laugh this much was The Eye of Argon. I was utterly finished by the "proud, insolent thrusting" of the Bad Guy's one-eyed obelisk (who *did* he get for design-build??), and the author's willingess to wallow in multigenre cliches means that this will set a new standard for swill.Apparently it is not possible to award zero or negative stars here, but this book merits a thumping minus-ten. With this book, Tor insults the intelligence of its readers, and raises questions about the role of the publisher in shaping the field and public perception of it.
