I continue to be interested in this older fantasy series- for the second time around. I read the series as a teen, and remembered it! I reviewed the first book, Split Infinity earlier in this blog, and deemed it not completely suited to the young reader. Still, I enjoyed it enough that I looked forward to rereading this second installment. Our hero, is learning his abilities of magic, slaying dragons and winning the love of women in two different worlds, all while following his own moral code. The bad guy turns out to be not a guy at all, and there is perhaps a bigger bad guy that we haven't yet met.
Again, the moral code followed by the hero, Stile, is likely not the same one we want our children to adopt, and there are a lot of naked people here, often doing what naked people tend to do, nakedly. "Naked" being a favored word of the author, also "desmesnes" and "oath". I guess I put this series in a more acceptable category than the very good, if occasionally disturbing and frustrating Confessor series by Terry Goodkind, but not as appropriate as the excellent and engaging Eragon series by Christopher Paolini- boy, I really should review that one!
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