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A review by mackle13
Shadow's Son by Jon Sprunk
2.0
A decent enough story and decent enough writing - but there's nothing original or really all that captivating about it. Tropes abound, and the plot and character interactions are all pretty predictable.
And, ya know, I can live with a cliche story - some of my favorite stories are pretty tropey, to be honest - but there has to be something about the writing and/or characters to engage me in some way, and while Caim is the type of character I go for, and while I was rooting for certain things to unfold, it just didn't do it in a way which made it stand out from the other books of the type.
On the plus side, it was paced fairly well, and the short length works in its favor. And the characters, while sticking to tropes, aren't entirely 2-dimensional.
And, ya know, I can live with a cliche story - some of my favorite stories are pretty tropey, to be honest - but there has to be something about the writing and/or characters to engage me in some way, and while Caim is the type of character I go for, and while I was rooting for certain things to unfold, it just didn't do it in a way which made it stand out from the other books of the type.
On the plus side, it was paced fairly well, and the short length works in its favor. And the characters, while sticking to tropes, aren't entirely 2-dimensional.