![]() I’m about a third of the way through and find myself bored with the simplistic dialogue and irritated with the characters and premise. But, the lines they are given are so predictable and type-cast that there’s only so much a narrator can do with them. For the first book, I could accept the narration, but on this one, the way all of the elves are voiced is just too much: it’s really just silly. This installment is far too heavy on internal dialogue: way too many thoughts and feelings going on, and they’re all a bit adolescent, even if they’re in the context of a situation that’s supposed to have consequences as dire as any that could exist. I enjoyed the first book in the series, in that there were at least things happening that kept me entertained and engrossed, even if it did feel pretty young adult-ish in its dialogue and overall level of gravity. ![]() I must have stumbled into Young Adult fiction by mistake. ![]() As a side note, the reader rocked the performance! The voicing he gave to every character was spot on, The way he acted out the antagonist put shivers right down my spine! A great listen, one that makes me excited for the next installment. The power and humanity of these stories is incredible. Oh, yeah: and all this is happening while magic is causing blackberry canes to grow up through the floor and rattlesnakes to attack! The threads of deep awareness give depth to a tapestry of magic, wits, hex craft, and grinding poverty that definitely needs more stories told about it. The novel explores the coping strategies that we learn at one point in our lives, which can hold us back at another stage of life in a fashion that's both loving and a little bit humorous. Adam and the cast of characters around him have to grapple with an awful lot: the relationship between internal identity, external identity and self-worth, between what's legal and what's right, and the fact that someone can love and fear, love and hate, or even love and destroy at the same time. With the same mix of edge of your seat energy and deep, provocative plotting that the first book in the series provided, Slayton explores some of the most complex parts of human behavior. ![]()
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