A review by scrollsofdragons
The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

3.0

2.5 The first person writing style didn't work for me, in high fantasy I find third person is what works best. And we only follow the one character who's not even that interesting, which means all the other background characters we only see through her perspective and if these other characters had been able to stand on their own, had they had povs I could have liked them more. As it was only the plot which was thrilling held this book for me but I may not continue because I don't care enough about the characters and with the plot looming towards war, I need characters to care about.

Romance-2
Characters- 2.5
World Building- 2.5
Enjoyability -4
Originality -2.5
Plot-4
Writing -3
For a total of 2.92 rounded to 2.5