(This review may contain spoilers).
It did take me a little while to get to reading this book, unfortunately. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to read it… I just forgot that I said I would until this week.
I found this book really easy to read with a likable main character. There were a couple of times in this book where I found myself laughing at some of the comments Sheikoh made – and thought. (There was quite an amusing one about last thoughts…)
I did feel that Sheikoh was quite an intriguing, well-rounded character. At times, he almost seemed like he had a split personality. I really liked his relationship with Dorothia… and I also particularly liked his interactions with Ingrid. I think their relationship was a bit cliched at times, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying reading their conversations and how they were forced to work together.
Most of the characters seemed to have more than one layer to them, which is always something that’s interesting to see. I felt Sheikoh in particular had realistic strengths and weaknesses based on what had happened to him. I think I’ve mentioned before that I don’t want to see everything come easy to the heroes. It’s much more interesting to see them bleed. (It’s not that I’m bloodthirsty; I just don’t think that anything worth having is easy. And what Sheikoh wanted was nearly an impossibility.
Unfortunately, I did notice a lot of errors in the writing. I still enjoyed the book, but I felt it could have benefited from a bit more proofreading. One of the major things I noticed was a lot of missing words – and I wasn’t always sure what word was missing.
The world in this book was a really intriguing one and the characters came across as real people who I could truly care about. There were as many emotional scenes as there were humorous ones and I found myself caring about what happened throughout the course of the book.
I would definitely read a sequel to this.
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