A review by cimorene1558
The Fiend and the Forge by Henry H. Neff

3.0

It's too bad. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, thought the second one was pretty good, but I could barely be bothered to finish this one. I'm not sure the quality is actually declining, it may just be that my interest declines the further it gets from the original premise (which was basically Harry Potter with Irish and other mythology thrown in). Max is really not a very attractive character any longer, or a very interesting one--exotic origins aren't enough to make a basically boring and unsympathetic character interesting to me. That isn't to say there aren't some nice bits, because there are, and I think if the main character were someone I had a little more sympathy for, that I might have really enjoyed this.