A review by kzbx
The Banished of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler

4.0

I think if I wasn’t already a fan of this writer, I might not have finished this first book of the series. I’m not very good at pushing through a storyline that I can’t get into, and for me that happened with this book.

There was not quite enough backstory explanation- and while I understand why after getting further in, it made it no less frustrating at the time. It was difficult to figure out why things were a certain way and everything was a little murky and not explained.
It is, however, worth pushing through - after about half way, I started to enjoy the book much more, and went on to enjoy the series.

While this is supposedly a stand alone series, I’d say you definitely need to read the first muirwood series to enjoy this to its fullest.