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Bob @ Beauty in Ruins
PLEASE NOTE: I'm rarely active here anymore, but please feel free to follow me on Goodreads, where I post regularly.
These are the chronicles of a book addict, a photo junkie, and an aspiring author, rewriting the very fabric of reality one page (and one snapshot) at a time. From the strange to the unusual; the abandoned to the abnormal; the haunted to the historic; the supernatural to the surreal; the forests of dark fantasy, the cemeteries of gothic horror, and the post-apocalyptic ruins of science fiction are the landscapes of my imagination.
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Deathstalker Rebellion: Being the Second Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker
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298/508 pages
Heartwood
The writing was solid, flowing nicely from scene to scene, and the characters were intriguing. However, the plot was just a bit too simplistic for my tastes, relying too much on deus ex machina and coincidence to make ends meet. I mean, the flood just happened to move the right chest, revealing the secret passage beneath, which just happened to remain dry, despite the deluge. Inside is a wealth of historical artifacts, amongst which they just happen to immediately find the one book that has the answers they need. They, of course, happen to have the one person who can read it readily available, prompting a conversation that denies the very foundations of their faith, and which is met with little more than a token resistance to the earth-shattering revelation.
And that, I'm afraid, is where the story lost me. As intrigued as I was by the characters and their world, I couldn't bring myself to invest any more time in a story that rushed to such simplistic sort of 'epic' moments.