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Review title: Amateurish and cliched
Product review: I agree with the Amazon reviewer--this book is WAY over praised. It's not the worst I've ever read, but it is very rough and the writing clunks. The plot is not bad, and it is written in the same breathless style as Terry Goodkind's books, but without whatever it is the makes his stuff passable. Personally I prefer fantasy with more brain and less cliche [The Gray One, etc.] It would be nice to have a realism test when one buys a book--Marion Zimmer Bradley has crowned so many authors "the new Tolkien" and so many books "classics" that to me that is a sure sign that I will be disappointed. If it was more appropriately portrayed--"a good first offering by a new writer" or something like that, it would not cause so much eye rolling later on. Ad departments, take note--you oversold this one by a LOT.
