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Title: Flat Book - Intriguing World
Review: I read the Publishers Weekly review and was very excited to read this first book in the series, but on the whole was quite disappointed.While the world is reasonably interesting, and, for some, the existence of magic and limited technology side by side will be intriguing, the characters could not be less compelling. I never got the impression that any of the subject characters had any thoughts beyond those put on the page. They're flat and overly simplistic. Even the politics in the world are extremely simple. Kudos to Ash for not going down the well travelled road of the typical fantasy adventure, but she needs some serious seasoning before she can create people that truly live and breathe in the mind of this reader at least. This reminded me a lot of George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books, but they're a pale imitation at best. I'm afraid I can't recommend it.
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