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tacochelle 's review for:
A Quest of Heroes
by Morgan Rice
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Earlier in the year I read Eragon and said that it's all the fantasy tropes written before, doesn't do anything new. This is also that, but not well written. I wouldn't even say Eragon is great, but it's better than this.
The hero's name is Thor, why would you do that? No connection to Norse mythology. He is the protagonist so he gets everything easily. Poor shepard's son, but totally knows how to fight. Just walks in and becomes a knight's apprentice, suddenly has magic powers, immediately befriends the youngest prince, wins the heart of the princess. His peers hate him, until suddenly they don't. He gets an instant connection to rare and important animals. Sure, there's technically obstacles in his way of becoming a knight, but it resolves so quickly. Then the main villain, at least in this first book, is the kings oldest legitimate son, who gets passed over for succession of the throne in favor of the princess. There's only two things notable about him: he's evil in the sense that he's power-hungry, and he's gay. We get that drilled into our head, he's got a gay lover, they're both conniving. The narrative makes a point of saying "its not that we don't like him cause he's gay, we don't like him because he's into shady business". But these are the only gay people in the story, and they're treated as a point of shame by those who know. And he's such a boring villain! He does next to nothing throughout the book. And the ending is so sudden, nothing is resolved. It feels like its the first half of a book, rather than a completed story. Nothing's giving me a reason to care!
The hero's name is Thor, why would you do that? No connection to Norse mythology. He is the protagonist so he gets everything easily. Poor shepard's son, but totally knows how to fight. Just walks in and becomes a knight's apprentice, suddenly has magic powers, immediately befriends the youngest prince, wins the heart of the princess. His peers hate him, until suddenly they don't. He gets an instant connection to rare and important animals. Sure, there's technically obstacles in his way of becoming a knight, but it resolves so quickly. Then the main villain, at least in this first book, is the kings oldest legitimate son, who gets passed over for succession of the throne in favor of the princess. There's only two things notable about him: he's evil in the sense that he's power-hungry, and he's gay. We get that drilled into our head, he's got a gay lover, they're both conniving. The narrative makes a point of saying "its not that we don't like him cause he's gay, we don't like him because he's into shady business". But these are the only gay people in the story, and they're treated as a point of shame by those who know. And he's such a boring villain! He does next to nothing throughout the book. And the ending is so sudden, nothing is resolved. It feels like its the first half of a book, rather than a completed story. Nothing's giving me a reason to care!