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Title: A nice attempt at a novel
Review: As has been mentioned, Niles does have some good characters. The plot is also somewhat intriguing...but his poor writing skills leave the reader with the strong stench of melodramatic cheese. Poor sentence structure ("The wolves stormed the northmen. For they had come to destroy." For Niles was a bad writer.) is all too prevalent in the book, and Niles amateurishly reveals the entire plot with his poor use of foreshadowing. His vocabulary includes some interesting words, but is limited in its breadth; thus one gets the feeling that they are reading the same paragraph over and over. Tristan, Robyn, and Darryth deserved better than Doug Niles.
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