The First Named

It's got princes, a good wizard, a prophecy, a feisty princess, a mystical sword, outlaws, and an evil sorceress who takes over the kingdom.
Need I say more?
It's a quick read, fairly inoffensive, even mildly entertaining. But there are absolutely no original twists to the basic 'fantasy' story here. And the authors' (Wylie is a pseudonym for a husband/wife team) insistence on being relentlessly lighthearted in tone is occasionally disturbing. (Normally, people don't keep on merrily trucking along, cracking jokes and saying, "well, we've got to move on" directly after their betrothed/brother/friend/etc is killed.) The characters have no depth of emotional involvement - and neither will the reader. I probably won't remember anything that show more happened in this book shortly. show less