This book has extremely poor character development, a plot that moves more awkwardly than a teenager learning to drive a stick shift, and is riddled with inconsistencies. And I read it all the way to the end on the off-chance that it would stop being terrible, but the terribleness continued. The main character should never be outshined by his or her supporting characters when it comes to plot resolution and agency. The author gives Leven a special power early on in the book but it is useless in the last battle. He himself becomes a passive object while everyone else is fighting to save his life. They seemed be more comic filler to stretch a novella of about 100 pages into a novel of about 250 pages.Īt the end of the novel I barely knew the main character better than I did in the beginning, and the same can be said of the supporting characters.įinally, and this is perhaps the worst part, in the climactic confrontation in the end, the main character, Leven, must rely on all of his friends to win. Much of the misadventures along the way teach the reader almost nothing about the enemy, the protagonists, or the mission. Eventually I got around to it but I must say, based on its level of popularity, I was expecting a little more from this book.Īside from the cheesy chapter puns on oldies music songs or colloquial proverbs and idioms there were some really awkward parts in this book.
I had avoided reading this for so long based solely on these blemishes. I shouldn't have been surprised considering the strange title and the author's rather odd pseudonym. If you do, it just feels like the author got lazy and said "I don't know how to solve this, so let's just have a magic spell save the day."Īctually this was pretty weak. If your magic doesn't have defined rules and a system the reader can rely on, you cannot use it as a solution to major plot elements. It perfectly demonstrated the points Sanderson writes about with magic. It also just felt like everything in his magic was contrived, more like he just decided "oh this would be fun let's do that" with no throught for consistency etc. Instead it felt like Skye tried to take the humor of the Durseleys and shove it at you with every authority figure in the book. It would have helped to have even one adult who could be a friend and mentor to the character. All adults where bumbling idiots that would have lead humanity to death thousands of years ago for example. It made me feel like he wrote the book, not because it came from him, but because he saw an opportunity to write in a genre that was enjoying successes.
It felt too much like Obert Skye tried too hard to create something with the same witt and mass appeal that the Potter series has.
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