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Title: all this praise is overblown
Review: I am a great fan of fantasy and sci-fi, but this is one of the few books I couldn't bring myself to finish. I believe I would have enjoyed it had I read it at the age of fifteen or less. However at the age of twenty all I can say is: boring. Characters lack development, names of beings are just puns of other more known names (The main bad guy is Shai'tan - Satan). There must be at least a dozen authors who can and has developed the "innocent youngsters chased by bad guys" plot better. It is basically this: be chased, fight Trollocks (Orcs), encounter new characters (and then forget them), be chased some more. I am honestly puzzled at the five stars-reviews. Especially if you are a Tolkien fan: keep away from this book. I would swap the entire series for one Terry Goodkind book.
