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Title: Not my kind of book
Review: This book is full of action, adventure, and magic, so much that it seems as if it were lifted straight from a D&D campaign. Unfortunately, that doesn't make for a very good book in my opinion. The characters do ridiculous things, seeming at times like they were taken from a 14 year-old's hormone-driven fantasies. It is a fast read--you should be able to finish it in a weekend--and it certainly doesn't require much thought. If that is the kind of book you are looking for then by all means read it, I doubt you will be disappointed. However, there are other books out there that have those qualities (action, adventure, magic) but are much more interesting to read (anything written by David Eddings or Raymond Feist, for example). I gave it two stars because the book isn't unbearable to read, it's just not very interesting. Also, I don't think Mr. Greenwood was trying to write a masterpiece and I imagine it is popular among its target readers.
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