Spear of the Sigilla

Spear of the Sigilla by Patrick Basil

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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This is classic fantasy and quite well done. The world building is effective and the societies make sense. It might have benefited from a bit more editing but given this is an inde author, I think he did pretty well.

In general characters are well handled although no attempt was made to flesh out the bad guys. They were simply bad and that was the end of it. Likewise, outside of the principle character, the other characters received very little treatment. Even her sidekick, Cat, while developing additional skills, fails to emerge with any sort of personality. However the main character, Rinn, grows and matures considerably as the book progresses.

One unfortunate choice of names was that of Rinn's guardian, the giant Molossos. After very few pages I found myself reading it as Molasses which detracted a bit from his stature but these things happen.

Pacing was a little erratic. Fight scenes were well done and was the adventuring; however, the book starts slowly and by the 12% mark I almost abandoned it. That would have been unfortunate because it picked up nicely and while I wouldn't consider it to be a 'page turner', it was worth reading and I think I can recommend it to lovers of fantasy.



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