The Well of Tears

The writing isn't getting any better – we still have acres of prolix description, and the heroine is predictably beautiful. (And, naturally, the hero is handsome and extremely powerful.) And her use of various dialects is pretty awkward – I can only assume that the ghastly accent alloted to the Grïmnørslanders is meant to be a phonetic rending of a New Zealand accent. It certainly makes for unpleasant reading:

“They feshion fine walkung stucks in Birchbroom, ez will ez bissoms.”

Regardless of what on earth that's meant to sound like, I can only hope it won't be making a return in later volumes.

But … the story is interesting, and offers a twist on a number of different myths. It's shaping into a possibly interesting series. show more Some tighter editing would help – apart from how tiresome the excessive description becomes, there are still a number of places where she uses words that she doesn't seem to understand properly. (I'm still trying to work out what colour she had in mind in The Iron Tree when she kept referring to Jarred having cardamom coloured hair …) show less

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