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This was a fun fantasy read. Loaned to me by Mike at work, who was really excited to find someone who also likes fantasy books. (Mike's cubicle neighbor teases him that he only likes books that have their titles embossed and shiny on the cover.)
I kind of don't get the end, though. I feel like the hero flaked out on some of his self-reflection. I don't get at all where he got the apparently-correct notion that his father was the wizard who destroyed Frven, thus making Justen his uncle. No clue where that came from. Also, what happened to him being bored all the time? Everything's boring, boring, boring, for a couple hundred pages, and then it just stops being boring all of a sudden. Since being bored was kind of what led him into exile, I would have thought he'd have stopped to think and realized that hey he's not bored anymore and considered what that means. Similarly, Krystal had that trademark giggle, and our hero didn't even notice the lack of it when he runs into her again later on.
In some books, the magical theory/philosophy is all fascinating no matter how much of it the author throws at you, but reading the magical theory in this book was a lot like playing Kingdom Hearts: order, order, chaos, chaos, white, black. I got the gist, but it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I don't know, it was a good book, but it could have been a better book. I'd still read the sequel, though I don't know if I want to read all 30 or however many sequels there are.
I kind of don't get the end, though. I feel like the hero flaked out on some of his self-reflection. I don't get at all where he got the apparently-correct notion that his father was the wizard who destroyed Frven, thus making Justen his uncle. No clue where that came from. Also, what happened to him being bored all the time? Everything's boring, boring, boring, for a couple hundred pages, and then it just stops being boring all of a sudden. Since being bored was kind of what led him into exile, I would have thought he'd have stopped to think and realized that hey he's not bored anymore and considered what that means. Similarly, Krystal had that trademark giggle, and our hero didn't even notice the lack of it when he runs into her again later on.
In some books, the magical theory/philosophy is all fascinating no matter how much of it the author throws at you, but reading the magical theory in this book was a lot like playing Kingdom Hearts: order, order, chaos, chaos, white, black. I got the gist, but it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I don't know, it was a good book, but it could have been a better book. I'd still read the sequel, though I don't know if I want to read all 30 or however many sequels there are.
