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Daniel Yost
Almost everything in this book is ripped straight out of other novels. Welcome to a tiny world where a 15-year-old Tolkien goes to an itty bitty Hogwarts to learn about Pokemon. The Humans, Dwarves, and Elves are in a cold war with each other while the Humans fight the Orcs, and the nobles deride the commoners. Then: twist (but not really); the end. That's the whole book. I regret buying.
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Charles Stein
Elks are called bulls, not stags, and their meat is NOT called venison. Also, no society that works metal would ever use flint arrow-heads. The dialog is drearily hackneyed and unrealistic, and the characters are unimaginative, tissue-thin conjurings of beings that can supposedly breathe and think. This 'author' reads like he's fourteen years old, writing for ten-year-olds. This book could not be diverting for any adult reader with an IQ higher than 60.
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Ryan
Flat and weird interactions interspersed with interesting descriptions and simplistic plots. Racism is shallowly addressed, with a brutally oppressed and beaten character renouncing his beliefs and joining the army responsible for their oppression after a single human and an elf save him - from other humans. Other threads of the story are left by the wayside, as time allegedly passes. Despite a serious look at money in the first dozen chapters, after discussing the yearly stipend they would get as students (often a neat 1000 shillings) money vanishes. The main character kills a handful of men without remorse, but later briefly expresses concern after hurting another student's bug. There's a number of specific things that bothered me about this book, but the general issue boils down to characters having no depth to them, and as a result tension and conflict only appear as stepping stones to move the plot along before immediately resolving only a few sentences later. All in all, it makes for an interesting world, seen through an woefully uninteresting lens.
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