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A review by bargainandbooks
Into the Wildbarrens by Christian Sterling
5.0
I was given a copy of The Gems of Elsana: Into the Wild Barrens from the author in exchange for my honest review.
Fantasy is such a fantastic genre, and also one where it’s entirely hit or miss. For me, this book was a HUGE hit!
We follow our young wizard Falin across Elsana as he searches for four Gems that will help him control the elements and increase his wizard powers. With the help from his six champions he tries across an incredible landscape meeting foes of all shapes and sizes. The build up for the second novel has me sucked right in, while we get some closure and happy feelings at the end of this book.
This story of determination, love, friendship and understanding is well written and beautifully described. I get a real Lord of the Rings/Hobbit meets Xanth kind of journey and I am absolutely not complaining about that! Tolkien and Anthony are
Some key elements I loved:
The creation story and the “religious”/“evolution” style stories were really well done. I get these stories made it believable and relatable to the real world, which I love in a fantasy novel.
I love that this is not an entirely male trek and that we have some strong female characters along side of the men.
Red and Jimmy are absolutely great, while all of the champions and Falin have their own personalities and traits I like I really found these two to be my favorite right from the start.
The sarcastic and silly banter between our characters made it easy to connect with them all.
Bujijis. I am tempted to put this under elements I didn’t like, but they were so well written I was tempted to back away from the book in order to not give myself nightmares.
I honestly cannot wait for the next instalment in this series.
Fantasy is such a fantastic genre, and also one where it’s entirely hit or miss. For me, this book was a HUGE hit!
We follow our young wizard Falin across Elsana as he searches for four Gems that will help him control the elements and increase his wizard powers. With the help from his six champions he tries across an incredible landscape meeting foes of all shapes and sizes. The build up for the second novel has me sucked right in, while we get some closure and happy feelings at the end of this book.
This story of determination, love, friendship and understanding is well written and beautifully described. I get a real Lord of the Rings/Hobbit meets Xanth kind of journey and I am absolutely not complaining about that! Tolkien and Anthony are
Some key elements I loved:
The creation story and the “religious”/“evolution” style stories were really well done. I get these stories made it believable and relatable to the real world, which I love in a fantasy novel.
I love that this is not an entirely male trek and that we have some strong female characters along side of the men.
Red and Jimmy are absolutely great, while all of the champions and Falin have their own personalities and traits I like I really found these two to be my favorite right from the start.
The sarcastic and silly banter between our characters made it easy to connect with them all.
Bujijis. I am tempted to put this under elements I didn’t like, but they were so well written I was tempted to back away from the book in order to not give myself nightmares.
I honestly cannot wait for the next instalment in this series.