The Lost Keep of Kaywall

by Charles Embrey Jr.

Book by Charles Embrey Jr.

284 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[J.L. Lamastus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun read. I really appreciated that the author didn't assume that a reader would be familiar with the different monsters and what the characters could do. Is a great introductory fantasy novel.

[Rhonda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very well written book. It’s a great adventure, a quick read and safe for children to read.

[Keisha Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story was like reading a dungeons and dragons game. Good quick story but the ending and the end of the book felt rushed.

[Shazza Maddog · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would've given this story 3.5 stars so I rounded up.

Clovis is a young man training with Warhawk to be a paladin. When Warhawk tells him a story he'd heard from an elf many years before about a castle which only appears every hundred years, they decide they should go investigate. They arrive in a run-down city, where they find the story - the king bragged his daughter was more beautiful than a goddess and the goddesses took exception. Or one specific goddess does and locks Abigail, the princess, in the castle and curses it. It has been five hundred years since the curse and the king is still alive through magic. With a band of intrepid warriors, Warhawk and Clovis take off to rescue the princess.

This is a straight-forward D&D style fantasy. When the story concentrated on the characters, it's good. It bogged down in the adventure part of the story to me as the author concentrated on how many feet and the direction the characters were traveling in, rather than providing descriptions of the walls, floors, or what the characters were feeling at the time.