Luck in the Shadows: Library Edition

Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable Read
Review: I really enjoyed the book. And the second & third in the series only got better. I disagree that there was too much prose. Her work gets better with later books in the series but I still thoroughly enjoyed the first (so much so that I bought all of her books).

Rating:
Summary: Truly Heroic Effort by the Reader
Review: This was the author's first published novel and has a whole lot of flaws that range from too much swearing (and I don't mean from a moral standpoint but a prose standpoint, I got really tired of hearing about some diety's "balls") to huge chunks of exposition thinly disguised as conversation. Then there is the ultimate sin, being told that the action in a long section of the story was unnecessary, just sort of a character building exercise. Oh, someone or other's balls! It wasn't even an interesting long section of the story for the most part.

However, I just bought another book read by Raymond Todd because he gave this one such a heroic effort. Really. Faced with a made up language, long tongue twisting names and some embassassing prose he soldiered on valiantly. This man is a professional.

So if you like pseudo medieval fantasy with a bit of cross dressing and in need of some pruning shears give this one a shot.