Peter Garrison (1) (1949–)

I seem to be finding the series where the second book is such fluffy filler that reading it hurts. Again I find good solid prose, complete thoughts. Again I run into too many characters, too much world jumping. Sometimes I think the author may have had three different ideas but couldn't work them all into three separate novels, so tried to meld them into one idea with three novels. With this novel, the world jumping doesn't happen as much, but the characters you meet grow immensely. This show more series probably won't remain in my collection, and I wouldn't really subject someone to this questionable prose. From a writer's standpoint, I learned more of what not to do. show less

As the first book in a series, this establishes the world that you will be dealing with during the next few books. Or in this book's case, worlds. The concept is unique, as I don't know of another writer that would describe Changelings in quite the way that this author chose. The book has good strong prose, and the characters are not too badly designed. My biggest problem falls with how many characters you need to keep straight in your head, and where between the two worlds one sits. Though show more the book is well written, I found it easy to misplace and leave sit for a week or two. The ending does offer a trip to the next books and I await the center and conclusion of this series. show less

I'm not feeling this book. It's moving way too slow and there are too many characters. I'm trying to like it, but I can put it down for weeks at a time and not think about it. So that's making it a meh book for me.

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For all these characters, all this build up (three books worth), and all these dueling plot lines, the ending was very anticlimactic. Too often I saw characters that could be combined or eliminated. The end felt like whole chapters were lost to make the space, rather than cut show more back on prose and other useless wordiness earlier in the book.

Made worse, there were very little hints on the direction of the story throughout. It was a disconnected mess. Characters would appear and you'd have no clue why. In one case, the character really didn't have much reason to be.

The author even tried to create a Yoda-esk teacher character -- failed miserably.

Not impressed. Not part of my recommended reading list. show less