The genre of the book is fantasy, and it took some of us a while to settle into the world depicted in the story, with trouble visualizing the fantasy world in which it was set. It left us wanting more detail of the landscape, a feeling like you have an itch on your brain that you can’t quite reach. It takes some time to get used to the magic in this book. The magic concepts are quite unique. Many parts were much too wordy, there was too much energy misspent on the battle scenes.
The story definitely picked up in the last third of the book. And for those of us that went on to read the second and third books in the series, we now see where the author was going in the first book, laying the groundwork for what is actually a much deeper and thought provoking story about social and political issues.
Reviews were mixed, ranging from 2.75 to 4.0. This book stretched our imaginations and took the group out of our comfort zone of “ historical fiction”.
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