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zestyudders's review
1.0
This book started off well enough, however things just kind of fell apart the further into the book we went. To help explain what I'm talking about without giving anything away, and the reason why I was disappointed in this book lets break it down into the three-act story structure. Act One: The Setup - This part of the book goes off well enough we are introduced to the protagonist of the story & the world she lives in. Act Two: Confrontation - The first of half of this goes off well enough our hero learns that the city she was exiled from as a little girl is free from oppressive rule, and wants to go back however she has to undergo a trial for the Druids to let her leave the forest. We are also getting different points of view from other characters in said city and are introduced to the antagonist of the story. The Second part of Act 2 is where things start to fall apart things start to drag a little bit and as the ending of the book becomes closer and closer I became worried about how all of this ascending action was going to even reach its climax, being 3/4ths of the way into the book and having our protagonist and antagonist yet to even encounter each other. Act Three: The Resolution - Sure enough here we are and my fears have come true. Second to last chapter our hero meets the villain then our hero is immediately pulled aside at the end of the chapter by a side character and told about some other "bad dude" who we only know about from a couple of off-handed references of said character throughout the book, which were probably only put there, to begin with for this moment.... So here we are the final chapter the Climax of the book and it has nothing to do with the novel we have just read, our hero goes off and fights some random bad guy the end. For this reason, I can not recommend this book. I purchased the Omnibus of the seven novels of the series but I am hesitant to continue - to those who have read the other books, do they get better and should I continue on or is it just more of the same and a complete bust?
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