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Title: Unfortunate lack of plot, character development and image building
Review: First I would like to echo a few others and congratulate Peter Cotton and Steve Stone for a well designed and illustrated cover. The book was an impulse buy based on the cover and Trudi Canavan's "Not since Tolkien have I been so awed". I am sorely disappointed with her.This book has failed in several ways as other reviewers have pointed out already. Personally, the lack of character development and backstory, a hashed together plot, and dialogue that is stilted made the book very difficult to read.I am very glad that I didn't purchase the entire series at once.
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