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A review by gabiirayner
Wit'ch Fire: Book One of the Banned and the Banished by James Clemens
2.0
2.5
Started so well!!! DRAGGED IN THE MIDDLE MY GOD!!!! Ended pretty well!!! Not sure if I'll continue the series though, watch this space.
Whilst I found particular characters interesting and endearing (Kral, Neelahn, Erril especially), there's just FAR too many names thrown at you at once, and far too many varying combinations of them to pull you through each subplot. The apostrophe usage starts feeling gimmicky after a while, and if I have to see the word "sibilant" used one more time.....
It's harmless enough and some of the descriptive work really had my skin crawling which was fun! I just wish there wasn't so much laborious detail of every single action taken, and that there could've been a bit more action before the finale aside from just running away :/
Started so well!!! DRAGGED IN THE MIDDLE MY GOD!!!! Ended pretty well!!! Not sure if I'll continue the series though, watch this space.
Whilst I found particular characters interesting and endearing (Kral, Neelahn, Erril especially), there's just FAR too many names thrown at you at once, and far too many varying combinations of them to pull you through each subplot. The apostrophe usage starts feeling gimmicky after a while, and if I have to see the word "sibilant" used one more time.....
It's harmless enough and some of the descriptive work really had my skin crawling which was fun! I just wish there wasn't so much laborious detail of every single action taken, and that there could've been a bit more action before the finale aside from just running away :/