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Title: yuck!
Review: Wow, I can't believe that somebody actually published this piece of crap. It reads like it was written like a fifteen year old who has read way too much sci-fi/fantasy and not enough of anything else. Reading this book was kind of like driving a square-wheeled car. Ka-chunk Ka-chunk Ka-chunk. It was very slow in most places and the "made up language" distracted from the story rather than adding to it. (BTW Tolkien had a PhD in medieval languages, he kind of knew what he was doing). The main part of the action was in the last few pages and things happened almost too quickly and I was forced to re-read several times to grasp what was going on. I hope that the sequel is better, but I'm not ready to waste my time reading it.
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