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The Shadow of Malabron: The Perilous Realm: Book One
A rich, absorbing fantasy follows a rebellious teen on his journey through the Perilous Realm, where dreams, fairy tales, and reality intersect.
When Will crashes his father’s motorcycle and stumbles into the Perilous Realm, all he wants is to find his way back to the world he knows. But he cannot get back the way he came, and as he soon discovers, his story is bound up with this mysterious land and with the very fabric of Story itself. Will is befriended by many strange people and creatures — including Rowen, a girl with a special destiny of her own, and Shade, an unusual wolf — but he is also pursued by dark forces under the control of Malabron, otherwise known as the Night King, the Master of Fetches, and the Storyeater. As Will’s path crosses those of the inhabitants — both innocent and malevolent — of this strange new world, his choices will determine not only his own fate, but that of his new friends in the Perilous Realm.
When Will crashes his father’s motorcycle and stumbles into the Perilous Realm, all he wants is to find his way back to the world he knows. But he cannot get back the way he came, and as he soon discovers, his story is bound up with this mysterious land and with the very fabric of Story itself. Will is befriended by many strange people and creatures — including Rowen, a girl with a special destiny of her own, and Shade, an unusual wolf — but he is also pursued by dark forces under the control of Malabron, otherwise known as the Night King, the Master of Fetches, and the Storyeater. As Will’s path crosses those of the inhabitants — both innocent and malevolent — of this strange new world, his choices will determine not only his own fate, but that of his new friends in the Perilous Realm.
400 pages, Hardcover
First published August 4, 2008
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Thomas Wharton
34 books167 followersI live near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and write for grown-ups and children. My newest novel, The Book of Rain, will be published by Random House Canada in 2023.
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February 23, 2016
I am glad I found this book in my library. I thought it would just a be the usual fantasy story- a boy on a quest,etc,etc. But then I read the prologue of this book..Thomas Wharton is a great storyteller. The language is beautiful, the story is engaging, great characters, and the description is so detailed. He creates a whole new world, which might have some similarities as the usual fantasy stories. What makes it great is this new world richly comes alive. The only think I wish is that there should be a glossary and a map to familiarize with the new world.
November 24, 2009
This is a finding-oneself sort of book, where a young person runs off and ends up in another world and has to find their way home which they realize is where they wanted to be all along. Except its quite well done. First, although it doesn't lie about being part of a trilogy, the book has an ending that doesn't leave you hanging (or irritated because now you have to read the next one and it wasn't that good). I'm looking forward to the next one and like that I don't HAVE to read it. Second, fairy tale incorporation...quite nice. And the young man realizes he wants to go home, but also that he wants to stay too - and feeling both ways is okay. It was one of the better done of its kind.
June 2, 2016
The Shadow of Malabron is about Will, the main character, who runs away from his family. There, he finds himself in an entirely new world, with everything supernatural and magical stuff, I guess. Something something about him being in a land filled with stories, and desperately searches for a way back home. I found this book in the library, and I found it rather interesting. What I loved the most about it was its use of sensory details, and how smoothly Thomas was able to stitch the words together! I loved the quirky quotes he would put at the beginning of a new chapter. Though, I must admit, some parts seemed rather slow to me, and some other things rather repetitive (such as Will falling for something, only to find out its a trap), and could have done a little bit more to explore Will's relationships with other characters, such as Freya. Nevertheless, the characters were amazing, and the concepts and ideas that come from this book often surprise me. Like, seriously creative! I was astonished with the ending! I thought of it as the best part of all the book because of the surprising twist. Who knew?
December 9, 2010
This book was amazing! Despite the cliff hanger ending. I can't wait for the next one because this is only the start!
May 9, 2017
I really enjoyed this book! The characters were likeable and there was a lot of imagination put into the way the story progressed (the finding of Shade, the ice dragon and the final battle being my favourite parts). Everything ran smoothly and there was never a moment where I went "Am I done YET!?" The ending was very well done, everything was tied up nicely. And it was left in a way that the author could either leave it as a standalone novel or turn it into a series (which he has, and I WILL be reading the next book)
October 18, 2024
When I read this book as a teenager, it was epic. I loved it from start to finish. Rereading it today, I still love it... but in a different way. The references to other fantasy novels are easier to pick up, but I also feel like this book stole a little too much.
I wish it had a few more original ideas and concepts.
Nonetheless, this is definitely a book that has earnt a place on my bookshelves. Reading it gives me a huge feeling of nostalgia and I'd be happy for my future kids to read it too.
I wish it had a few more original ideas and concepts.
Nonetheless, this is definitely a book that has earnt a place on my bookshelves. Reading it gives me a huge feeling of nostalgia and I'd be happy for my future kids to read it too.
June 29, 2017
2.5 stars. It has a great plot, unfortunately it didn't have enough substance to navigate around the world it was built in. I think I went into this book after reading all the hype written about it and feeling a little disappointed now. I managed to get into the story but girl, it was tough to cruise through the ending. The conclusion did not feel like the story was ending but it was running at the climax pitch.
February 22, 2019
It's the best book on the shelf!😊😍
August 18, 2020
I liked this book because it was full of adventure, action, and fantasy.
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October 24, 2021DNF at about 50%
February 13, 2015
In fantasy more than any other genre, the line between writing for adults and writing for children is incredibly blurred. The only obvious differences are that in writing for younger readers, the heroes tend to be younger, there are more human-like characters and fewer names with too many apostrophes and too few vowels compared to fantasy novels aimed at adults. There are very few differences between the plotlines and the stories themselves. Having written for adults prior to this, author Thomas Wharton would know this better than I. I know nothing of his work for adults, but if it's as good as "The Shadow of Malabron", it has to be worth checking out.
Will Lightfoot, isn't happy with his life. His mother died three years ago and he is uprooted from his home to move across the country for his father's new job. It's a chance to move on, but Will wants to keep remembering his mother from where they are. So when his father refuses to stop at a roadside attraction, Will steals his father's motorbike when they stop for the night and heads back through the rain and dark to try to find it himself.
What he finds instead is not what he expected. Will crashes the motorbike and ends up in the Perilous Realm, a land not too far from ours where all our stories come from. Almost immediately, Will finds himself in danger, hunted by a man called Lotan. Before the ghosts sent by Lotan can find Will, a young girl, Rowen, discovers him and they are helped to safety by a ranger, Moth and his raven, Morrigan. Rowen's grandfather is a loremaster, someone who knows most of the stories that make up both the Perilous Realm and our world and he knows how Will may be able to return home, but it's a long journey away. They are helped along by Shade, a wolf Will rescues from the library and Finn, a Knight of the Realm.
This isn't a new idea, by any means. Generally, the first thought of anyone who ends up in a strange land is to find their way home. What makes "The Shadow of Malabron" as good as it is are the little touches that Thomas Wharton provides. The library was one of these, with the way the books are found by following a flying slip being an entertaining one. The other idea I loved was that of the werefire and the way it can affect people, especially when it landed Will in a story from his computer game, a little like in the film "eXistenZ". This link was apparent earlier on when they were caught in a story shard, which reminded me of the game loops from the film.
The mixing of stories and worlds reminded me of the way Neil Gaiman often takes fairy stories and gives them a more up to date context and in Shade's story here, I felt that link most strongly. I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman's work, so any similarity there was always going to find favour with me. There were also parts that reminded me of "The Lord of the Rings", especially the part in the mountains that made me think more of the films than the books.
Perhaps the one disappointment for me in the book was that it wasn't particularly visual. Whilst characters like Shade the wolf and the hogmen are simple enough to picture, as is the werefire and Morrigan the raven, some of the others aren't quite so well drawn. Whilst my mind managed to conjure up vague images for some characters, I never really got a picture of how Will and Rowen would look, nor of the world around them, which is unusual for me.
There were enough novel touches and they were spread well throughout the story so that, despite the basic idea being a common one, there were very few parts where the basic idea was allowed to leach through between Wharton's ideas and reduce the impact of those ideas. Indeed, the only place where this predictability was obvious was towards the end, where Will was offered the choice that occurs so often in such books and there was a rather predictable joke based around Will's surname that I'd been expecting since the first page.
The book is very readable and I found that I was able to lose myself in their adventures quite easily and despite it being a little shorter than most adult fantasy books, it seemed even more so due to how quickly I was turning the pages. Despite the journey itself being quite a long and slow moving one, with them walking rather than riding, there was enough going on along the way that the book itself never felt slow paced. The new ideas overpowered the essentially basic idea to the extent that this turned into a great read and any fantasy fan, whether young or old, will find enough here to enjoy and it's a book certainly worth having a look at. In the Perilous Realm, everyone has a story and in "The Shadow of Malabron", everyone can find a story to enjoy.
This review may also appear, in whole or in part, under my name at any or all of www.ciao.co.uk, www.thebookbag.co.uk, www.goodreads.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.dooyoo.co.uk
Will Lightfoot, isn't happy with his life. His mother died three years ago and he is uprooted from his home to move across the country for his father's new job. It's a chance to move on, but Will wants to keep remembering his mother from where they are. So when his father refuses to stop at a roadside attraction, Will steals his father's motorbike when they stop for the night and heads back through the rain and dark to try to find it himself.
What he finds instead is not what he expected. Will crashes the motorbike and ends up in the Perilous Realm, a land not too far from ours where all our stories come from. Almost immediately, Will finds himself in danger, hunted by a man called Lotan. Before the ghosts sent by Lotan can find Will, a young girl, Rowen, discovers him and they are helped to safety by a ranger, Moth and his raven, Morrigan. Rowen's grandfather is a loremaster, someone who knows most of the stories that make up both the Perilous Realm and our world and he knows how Will may be able to return home, but it's a long journey away. They are helped along by Shade, a wolf Will rescues from the library and Finn, a Knight of the Realm.
This isn't a new idea, by any means. Generally, the first thought of anyone who ends up in a strange land is to find their way home. What makes "The Shadow of Malabron" as good as it is are the little touches that Thomas Wharton provides. The library was one of these, with the way the books are found by following a flying slip being an entertaining one. The other idea I loved was that of the werefire and the way it can affect people, especially when it landed Will in a story from his computer game, a little like in the film "eXistenZ". This link was apparent earlier on when they were caught in a story shard, which reminded me of the game loops from the film.
The mixing of stories and worlds reminded me of the way Neil Gaiman often takes fairy stories and gives them a more up to date context and in Shade's story here, I felt that link most strongly. I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman's work, so any similarity there was always going to find favour with me. There were also parts that reminded me of "The Lord of the Rings", especially the part in the mountains that made me think more of the films than the books.
Perhaps the one disappointment for me in the book was that it wasn't particularly visual. Whilst characters like Shade the wolf and the hogmen are simple enough to picture, as is the werefire and Morrigan the raven, some of the others aren't quite so well drawn. Whilst my mind managed to conjure up vague images for some characters, I never really got a picture of how Will and Rowen would look, nor of the world around them, which is unusual for me.
There were enough novel touches and they were spread well throughout the story so that, despite the basic idea being a common one, there were very few parts where the basic idea was allowed to leach through between Wharton's ideas and reduce the impact of those ideas. Indeed, the only place where this predictability was obvious was towards the end, where Will was offered the choice that occurs so often in such books and there was a rather predictable joke based around Will's surname that I'd been expecting since the first page.
The book is very readable and I found that I was able to lose myself in their adventures quite easily and despite it being a little shorter than most adult fantasy books, it seemed even more so due to how quickly I was turning the pages. Despite the journey itself being quite a long and slow moving one, with them walking rather than riding, there was enough going on along the way that the book itself never felt slow paced. The new ideas overpowered the essentially basic idea to the extent that this turned into a great read and any fantasy fan, whether young or old, will find enough here to enjoy and it's a book certainly worth having a look at. In the Perilous Realm, everyone has a story and in "The Shadow of Malabron", everyone can find a story to enjoy.
This review may also appear, in whole or in part, under my name at any or all of www.ciao.co.uk, www.thebookbag.co.uk, www.goodreads.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.dooyoo.co.uk
January 8, 2012
The Shadow of Malabron
is a well-written book about a teenage boy named Will Lightfoot who crashes his fathers motercycle while on his way to The Perilous Realm , which he thought to be a carnival, he was dead wrong. The Perilous Realm is the world of stories, a place where stories are life and life is full of stories. There, Will is catapulted into a world very different from his own, and into a story of his own.
The Entrances and Exits to this world though are constantly moving from place to place, varying from a cave enterance to a portal. Will, not knowing this, went deeper into this strange world looking for the Carnival . After he got in, he couldn't get out because the Gateless Gate he used to get in, vanished.
Personally, I liked the book but it was Cliche and done before, it was well-written and fun-to-read but kind of boring too. It was also hard to focus on because of the odd-uneven-pace as well as the large amount of information crammed into very few pages. If I were to re-write this book, I would split it into two smaller novels so I could take my time with the pace of the story and the information I include inside.
Still a great novel and amazing way to pass the time! I highly reccommend it to anyone who's got the time. I also hear there's a second book but I've yet to find it! (The Fathomless Fire.) Also, if you liked this book, I roccommend Rangers Apprentice because John Flanagan and Thomas Wharton have similiar writing styles.
The Entrances and Exits to this world though are constantly moving from place to place, varying from a cave enterance to a portal. Will, not knowing this, went deeper into this strange world looking for the Carnival . After he got in, he couldn't get out because the Gateless Gate he used to get in, vanished.
Personally, I liked the book but it was Cliche and done before, it was well-written and fun-to-read but kind of boring too. It was also hard to focus on because of the odd-uneven-pace as well as the large amount of information crammed into very few pages. If I were to re-write this book, I would split it into two smaller novels so I could take my time with the pace of the story and the information I include inside.
Still a great novel and amazing way to pass the time! I highly reccommend it to anyone who's got the time. I also hear there's a second book but I've yet to find it! (The Fathomless Fire.) Also, if you liked this book, I roccommend Rangers Apprentice because John Flanagan and Thomas Wharton have similiar writing styles.
August 13, 2014
Will Lightfoot never imagined that his visit to the roadside carnival The Perilous Realm would indeed dump him straight into The Perilous Realm itself---a world of stories, the story behind every story. The Perilous Realm is growing darker. The evil Malabron has been warring against the Realm itself, trying to make every story his own. But Will's arrival may herald hope, for Malabron certainly seems to think he might be a threat . . .
A boy stumbles to another world. A small group of companions gathers around him to help him find the way back. Pursued by evil, they make their way to the gateless gate, where Will can at last find his way back to his world. They do kill a rather major evil along the way, but . . . I think this is partly why the book left me rather blase about its plot. Will tends to miss enjoying most of the interesting things in the Perilous Realm because he's too focused on getting back, and travel stories are best when they're exploring interesting things. The only driving motivation he has, mostly, is to get home. In the end when he finally decides there's something that, at least for a moment, might be worth more, it's only a few pages before he does get back and go through the gate.
Another peeve was that the book, after deliberately giving a nod to Lord of the Rings earlier on, the book later on nearly duplicates one of its more famous scenes involving a bridge and a large drop. It rather destroys the tension since you know said character is going to show up again alive and well (and he does, hardly a chapter later).
Shade, for me, was the most interesting character. An ancient wolf with the power of speech, he was a companion to the Stewards, the first caretakers of the Realm. His dignified manners are a nice contrast to his form and tend to surprise everyone else, too. He's simple and rather straightforward, but he's also one of the more magical (and not evil) beings they encounter on the journey.
It's not as though this was a bad story. I just never found myself invested in Will's need to get back, since he's obviously ignoring the great darkness threatening the world in order to get himself out of there. It actually feels a bit cruel at the end when he abandons everyone who risked their lives for him to a temporary peace so he can get back to his family while they try not to get crushed by the minions of darkness while they make their way back home, if they can even go home.
There is a second book, but I'm doubtful I'll ever read it. It's hard to imagine Will explaining to his family that this time when he disappears he's not going to be back until the evil overlord is vanquished, if Will is even in the second book. I rate this book Neutral.
A boy stumbles to another world. A small group of companions gathers around him to help him find the way back. Pursued by evil, they make their way to the gateless gate, where Will can at last find his way back to his world. They do kill a rather major evil along the way, but . . . I think this is partly why the book left me rather blase about its plot. Will tends to miss enjoying most of the interesting things in the Perilous Realm because he's too focused on getting back, and travel stories are best when they're exploring interesting things. The only driving motivation he has, mostly, is to get home. In the end when he finally decides there's something that, at least for a moment, might be worth more, it's only a few pages before he does get back and go through the gate.
Another peeve was that the book, after deliberately giving a nod to Lord of the Rings earlier on, the book later on nearly duplicates one of its more famous scenes involving a bridge and a large drop. It rather destroys the tension since you know said character is going to show up again alive and well (and he does, hardly a chapter later).
Shade, for me, was the most interesting character. An ancient wolf with the power of speech, he was a companion to the Stewards, the first caretakers of the Realm. His dignified manners are a nice contrast to his form and tend to surprise everyone else, too. He's simple and rather straightforward, but he's also one of the more magical (and not evil) beings they encounter on the journey.
It's not as though this was a bad story. I just never found myself invested in Will's need to get back, since he's obviously ignoring the great darkness threatening the world in order to get himself out of there. It actually feels a bit cruel at the end when he abandons everyone who risked their lives for him to a temporary peace so he can get back to his family while they try not to get crushed by the minions of darkness while they make their way back home, if they can even go home.
There is a second book, but I'm doubtful I'll ever read it. It's hard to imagine Will explaining to his family that this time when he disappears he's not going to be back until the evil overlord is vanquished, if Will is even in the second book. I rate this book Neutral.
February 27, 2017
If I could put one word for what this book was like as a fantasy lover it would be fantastic!
The breadth and meaning within this book blew me away and the storytelling held me to each wonderful character I came to know and love.
This is a book and series I would highly recommend for anyone who loves fairytales and loves new stories that incorporate them and tell a new tale.
The breadth and meaning within this book blew me away and the storytelling held me to each wonderful character I came to know and love.
This is a book and series I would highly recommend for anyone who loves fairytales and loves new stories that incorporate them and tell a new tale.
March 25, 2012
The first book of the trilogy follows a boy named Will Lightfoot, whose father has packed his family up to move them across the country. Will is unhappy about moving away from the house he lived in when his mother was still alive, and as an act of defiance steals his father's motorcycle to go to The Perilous Realm, a circus he sees from the highway. On his way, he crashes the motorcycle and is hurtled into a tumultuous alternate reality where the stories from our world originate. He teams up with a motley crew and sets out to find the gate through which he may return home.
This is an epic quest type of book, with references to Lord of the Rings, Little Red Riding Hood, and the King Arthur legends. The idea of a world where all of our stories originate is super interesting, as is the idea that malicious characters can wage wars within that world in order to make all stories their own. The ideas are what made this not a tedious read for me, but the characters are so stock it hurts. What? A boy who is secretly special? A feisty girl who is smarter than the boy but who has no character development? How about a wise old man who knows everything but says very little at a time? The reviews of this book all laud Wharton's writing style, but the first 80 pages are brutally amateurish. Will looked into the shards of mirror and got that feeling--you know, the one where you know the person looking back at you isn't you but some malevolent force that now knows your thoughts and memories and will try to find you to harm you? Get that one every morning!
The book does pick up, though, and the twists and turns are compelling. A good read for kids who are willing to pick up thick books and who love adventure or Arthurian legends or creatively imagined worlds. And there's a talking wolf!
Read this and some of my other reviews at http://respectablecollection.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-perilous-realm-the-shadow-of-malabron/.
This is an epic quest type of book, with references to Lord of the Rings, Little Red Riding Hood, and the King Arthur legends. The idea of a world where all of our stories originate is super interesting, as is the idea that malicious characters can wage wars within that world in order to make all stories their own. The ideas are what made this not a tedious read for me, but the characters are so stock it hurts. What? A boy who is secretly special? A feisty girl who is smarter than the boy but who has no character development? How about a wise old man who knows everything but says very little at a time? The reviews of this book all laud Wharton's writing style, but the first 80 pages are brutally amateurish. Will looked into the shards of mirror and got that feeling--you know, the one where you know the person looking back at you isn't you but some malevolent force that now knows your thoughts and memories and will try to find you to harm you? Get that one every morning!
The book does pick up, though, and the twists and turns are compelling. A good read for kids who are willing to pick up thick books and who love adventure or Arthurian legends or creatively imagined worlds. And there's a talking wolf!
Read this and some of my other reviews at http://respectablecollection.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-perilous-realm-the-shadow-of-malabron/.
May 17, 2011
While on the way to a new home with his sister and father, teenager Will Lightfoot spots a roadside advertisement for an amusement park called the "Perilous Realm."
His father refuses to stop, so at the first opportunity, Will takes off on his dad’s motorbike, only to wreck it fleeing from the police. He finds himself in the actual Perilous Realm — not a parc but a “shifting place that endlessly reshapes itself, like stories in the retelling.” Will’s search for the parc exit leads him to a mysterious tree with mirriors - and thats where the trouble begins.
Will is befriended by many strange people and creatures — including Rowen, a girl with a special destiny of her own, and Shade, an unusual wolf — but he is also pursued by dark forces under the control of Malabron, otherwise known as the Night King, the Master of Fetches, and the Storyeater. As Will’s path crosses those of the inhabitants — both innocent and malevolent — of this strange new world, his choices will determine not only his own fate, but that of his new friends in the Perilous Realm.
His father refuses to stop, so at the first opportunity, Will takes off on his dad’s motorbike, only to wreck it fleeing from the police. He finds himself in the actual Perilous Realm — not a parc but a “shifting place that endlessly reshapes itself, like stories in the retelling.” Will’s search for the parc exit leads him to a mysterious tree with mirriors - and thats where the trouble begins.
Will is befriended by many strange people and creatures — including Rowen, a girl with a special destiny of her own, and Shade, an unusual wolf — but he is also pursued by dark forces under the control of Malabron, otherwise known as the Night King, the Master of Fetches, and the Storyeater. As Will’s path crosses those of the inhabitants — both innocent and malevolent — of this strange new world, his choices will determine not only his own fate, but that of his new friends in the Perilous Realm.
March 26, 2014
I had to read this book for class and while I really enjoyed some of the creative use of story in this novel I couldn't get past how much of a LOTR mimic it was. There were major scenes that seemed taken right out of the books or movies and given a YA tone. Towards the middle I was ready to forgive the book the similarities but by the end it was just too much. I'm a big fan of LOTR and I felt a little cheated by this version. I wanted to give this a 2 stars but maybe that would be a little emotional, because there are many elements to this story that can stand on their own merit and are really fascinating but as I mentioned I just couldn't get past the similarities.
September 25, 2012
Glad i read the ebook, cos that cover is misleading. The kids in this book are older teens than pictured above, and the characters are sweet. Will could have been an annoying wee brat, but he wasn't. Rowen could have been the annoying know-it-all, but she wasn't. Pendrake could have been the wise, but bumbling idiot mage, and he wasn't... etc etc. There was more here than you're lead to believe, and I look forward to reading whatever quest they find themselves tasked with in book 2.
December 13, 2016
This book was an absolutely wonderful read. The characters are interesting and diverse, the nods at other fiction works are a great deal of fun, and the overall construction of this world of fables and fairy tales is absolutely beautiful. The pace is good, the descriptions are wonderful without ever risking the possibility of being boring, and the lore is fantastic. If you enjoy works of high fantasy fiction, this is definitely a book I would recommend to you.
June 26, 2011
A boy named Will was catapult to another world called the Perilous Realm when he was riding on his father's antique motorcycle and being chased by the police. Now on the Realm , he struggled to keep alive as there were people who were always after him to kill him.After a lot of adventures and making friends with people from the Perilous Realm,he managed to get home.
August 6, 2012
This well written book has a wonderful world creation where all the stories come from. However, it was unclear and too out there to really capture the full world. In addition, the story line was a bit ho-hum. The companions were on perilous journey, but no one is really sure why or where. I didn't HAVE to finish.
August 4, 2010
I enjoyed this book but, felt it didn't really deliver on the beloved tales woven into the story. There were a couple but except for Shade none of the others seemed important to the story. However, it is a good quest book that kids and Tweens will enjoy.
January 2, 2014
A 13-year-old boy from our world enters a dangerous fantasy realm of fable and story. Cool world-building and good writing. The quest seemed a little aimless at times; Will was told to 'let the story find him' and thus chose his path at random sometimes.
Favourite scene: the storyshard
Favourite scene: the storyshard
December 8, 2009
It's a decent start to a series, but it just didn't resonate with me the way other, similar books have. When it's good, it's good, but when it's not, it's just sort of... boring.
December 16, 2009
I really liked this book and can't wait for the other two to come out.
April 22, 2010
Your story is intertwined with the people's around you. You can't stop this or freeze time, only carry on with the path you take.
November 13, 2010
I never really cared for the characters, but otherwise this is a fun fantasy.
January 28, 2011
This book is hard to review. The writing is very good. Characters not so good. The plot is interesting but not really developed. Maybe that is why it is the first of three.
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February 29, 2012
I lost interest
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