I
received a copy of THE TRAITOR’S HEIR by Anna Thayer from Lion Fiction via
Kregel. It is the first installment of
the Knight of Eldaran series. First off, I fell in love with the
cover. There is so much going on –
cloaked figures in the background, flames a-flying. Plus, the guy looks like the Arrow, aka
Oliver Queen, from the television series and also a lot like my boyfriend.
Now
for the book. It was good, but it wasn’t
great. There was a lot going on inside
the cover, so I loved that. Intrigue,
danger… I was excited to see what happened next. Yet, the writing fell a little flat. At times it seemed too wordy, as if the
author was trying too hard to make it epic.
As an author myself, I noticed problems in the text that editors have
steered me away from. There were many
passive phrases and adverbs. For
example, on page 63, “closely” and “carefully” are in the same sentence, right
next to each other in fact. It seemed
like too much Telling rather than Showing.
I
do recommend this for fans of action and fantasy stories. The storyline was great; I just couldn’t get
into the writing.
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