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I’m beginning to love Kim Fielding. What I like most about her is that her characters aren’t perfect and chiseled. They’re men who aren’t conventionally attractive and/or have disabilities of some kind. Brute is a giant missing a hand and Gray is blind. While Gray is considered attractive because he hails from the land of ~beautiful people~ we, as the reader, aren’t bashed over the head with it. Even the secondary characters weren’t drop-dead gorgeous models, but had distinct physical traits. They were all just regular average people.
I LOVE the concept of gentle giants and I thought Fielding wrote Aric beautifully. He was a good man and anyone would be lucky to have him. I understood that this book was his narrative and I didn’t feel like I needed to read from Gray’s perspective. What can the reader gain when most of Gray’s time is spent in a cell?
I wish there had been more depictions of magic/mysticism in this book. Like fairies or actual witchcraft. I also would’ve loved to see one of the secondary characters, like Warin or Alys or Alfrid, turn up in Gray’s vision and have Aric being involved with the rescue. I think that’s the only part of Gray’s perspective I would have liked to expanded on. That, and a bit more depth on what being a healer entails and the different levels of it.
I wonder if Gray hadn’t been blind, would he have fallen for Aric just from his kindness? I would like to think so, since looks aren’t so important.
I liked the writing style a lot. I thought the prose described the world the MCs lived in quite well. As someone who doesn’t read much of the medieval/renaissance fantasy genre, I felt it was descriptive enough without being long-winded.
I only have one problem with this work: there isn’t a planned sequel! I would love to read more adventures of Aric and Gray now that they’re free to do as they please.
4 out of 5 stars.
I LOVE the concept of gentle giants and I thought Fielding wrote Aric beautifully. He was a good man and anyone would be lucky to have him. I understood that this book was his narrative and I didn’t feel like I needed to read from Gray’s perspective. What can the reader gain when most of Gray’s time is spent in a cell?
I wish there had been more depictions of magic/mysticism in this book. Like fairies or actual witchcraft. I also would’ve loved to see one of the secondary characters, like Warin or Alys or Alfrid, turn up in Gray’s vision and have Aric being involved with the rescue. I think that’s the only part of Gray’s perspective I would have liked to expanded on. That, and a bit more depth on what being a healer entails and the different levels of it.
I wonder if Gray hadn’t been blind, would he have fallen for Aric just from his kindness? I would like to think so, since looks aren’t so important.
I liked the writing style a lot. I thought the prose described the world the MCs lived in quite well. As someone who doesn’t read much of the medieval/renaissance fantasy genre, I felt it was descriptive enough without being long-winded.
I only have one problem with this work: there isn’t a planned sequel! I would love to read more adventures of Aric and Gray now that they’re free to do as they please.
4 out of 5 stars.