Gauntlet of Time

by Trip Ellington

Xalo believes that he and his best friend, Jirnik, are destined to spend the rest of their days barely eking out a living as poor scavengers—until a lost princess reveals his destiny as a Wielder.

Wielding his newly bonded magical gauntlet, Xalo and Jirnik are soon pulled into a perilous quest to reunite the lost princess with her family, all while being chased by the corrupted emperor and his minions...

Genres: Fantasy

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 16, 2015

About the author

Trip Ellington's major books for 2017 are EverMage: Clash of Chaos, EverMage: Bond of Magic, and Gauntlet of Time.

You can get his bestselling litRPG novel, Game Alive, for free on his website.

Trip Ellington was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has worked as a website designer, a Computer Science teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina, and an intern at a magazine publisher. He eventually trained as a teacher, focusing on History and Computer Science during his time as an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill and earning his master's degree in teaching at North Carolina State University.



When he isn't writing, he enjoys traveling, creating music, and playing video games.

Trip lives in Greensboro with his wife, plus two dogs and a cat.

Reviews

[Naticia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was OK. A little too complicated to be mindless enjoyment, and a little too flat to be entirely enjoyable, it ended up being just OK.

[Amy]

DNF 29% - I really wanted to like this book. I've tried twice to read it now. It has all the things that make a great fantasy novel, but it couldn't hold my attention. When it finally did, the chapter would suddenly end and I'd get a different POV. It felt like I kept getting interrupted and it was irritating. Worse yet, it was filled with telling you things that were important vs showing them. A lot of the info dumping paragraphs could have been enjoyable had they been made into scenes. When I glanced at the other books in my library, I wished to read those instead. So I'm giving up on this one for the final time.

[Dave Neuendorf · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not promoted as such, this is clearly the first in a series. The ending was not exactly a cliffhanger, but the fate of one of the main characters is unknown. That's too close to a cliffhanger for me.

None of the characters appealed to me enough to care much what happened to them. A lot of work went into the world building, but I still didn't like the world. The writing was technically not bad.

I'll probably read a sequel if it's published, but I won't be waiting with bated breath.