I'm still reading this book, and it is a mixed bag. Good parts are the imaginative world and a suspenseful plot. Bad parts are that this man needs to learn to write about emotions. There are two pairs of characters that whenever they are near each other you know you are going to get hit over the head with how they hurt so badly, still feel pain, are afraid to look in each others' eyes, blah blah blah. If the plot weren't so interesting I would have put it down. I could forgive it if it was a first novel, but it is likely I won't be picking up his Banned and the Banished series since they were written before this.

The world and characters are interesting, and probably could sustain a deeper treatment than we are getting in these two (so far) books, but they aren't really explored very well or deeply. ( )

8

An OK fantasy novel, and good for light reading. A little bit too long- I though the final chapters would never end. ( )

goed boek

Tylar is being reinvested as a Shadowknight, however before he can be, the order's headquarters is attacked from within and Tylar and his friends disover that there is a corruption at the heart of the order. A corruption that threatens the order and the future of the world.

It's not a bad read, but somehow it seems to be almost a book written to fill in some of the background, a very long bridging novel. I do want to find out what happens next but not enough that when I get my hands on the next book in the series that I'll be starting it immediately.

It appears that book 3 is either stalled or not in process. I did want to know what happened next. ( )