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Title: A disappointment
Review: I'm a big fan of LWE's other works - most notably the Etheshar and Dragon Weather series - so I was sadly disappointed by this book. I won't get into too many specifics, as other reviewers cover them pretty well. I simply found the story very boring and slow-paced. The entire story seems to be an agonizing buildup to the highly anticipated clash with the wizard lord - a true anti-climax covered very quickly. Very unsatisfying! I also couldn't appreciate any of the characters. This is so uncharacteristic of LWE's other work whose characters normally create a great deal of empathy within the reader. I can't recommend this book and have no plans to read the rest of this series unless reviewers convince me otherwise.Update 2009: I did read the second in the series ("Ninth Talisman") and found that to be a much more enjoyable book than this one.
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