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Full disclosure: I received a free copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review. Note: The review refers to the Uncut and Extended 2014 Edition. It must be said that Prophecies Awakening does start quite interestingly and shows plenty of promise early on. It even briefly hints towards being rather […]

Picked this up for free and I’m rather sorry I did. A fair amount of work seems to have gone into it, but I couldn’t even tell you precisely what it wants to be, and the writing style and the approach, not to mention the rushed ending pulled out of a hat, certainly ruin any […]

For most of this book, I was saying it’s an entirely run-of-the-mill SF; little to be bothered by, with the exception of what I’ll say below about the main character, but next to nothing to remember, so much so that you could probably readily find hundreds like it and never recall which was which after […]

As the rating suggests, and despite everything I’ll say past this point, I definitely liked what actually was in this book. However, what’s missing from it would be enough for another Song of Ice and Fire. Even worse than in the first volume, potentially important characters are barely even mentioned and secondary ones may be […]

It’s a good idea to have these two lumped in a single book, seeing as individually they’re short by high fantasy standards. Still, this reduced size is probably what makes the story somewhat fall apart at the seams at times, as the author is trying to cover too much action, and too much ground, in […]