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Act Of Will (2009)

by A.J. Hartley(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0765321246 (ISBN13: 9780765321244)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Hawthorne Saga

review 1: I was intrigued by the second book in the series, so I decided to grab the first one. No sense in reading the second book without reading the first.The plot picks up right away and it never stops. Will is one step away from breaking the fourth wall and sometimes he does break it. I like the story because it's funny and it's as if Will himself wrote it.He's a thespian wimp who is framed as a rebel by his other people and because of that, he's on the run. Except that he can't leave the city he's in and by a twist of fate, he ends up with a real band of rebels/mercenaries. He joins them as a last resort. And because he's a coward, he's afraid that his new "friends" will eventually get him captured by the soldiers or killed. Or they will simply slit his throat in his sleep.As ... morethings turn out, though, none of those things happen. Despite being the wimpiest main character ever, he does good and saves his friends when they need saving. Overall, this was a good read and at the time I was looking forward to getting my hands on the second book.
review 2: I picked this book up from the author while in line waiting to see him, Jonathan Maberry, Jim Butcher, Laurell K, and Sherrilyn Kenyon at Dragon*Con last year. He was adorable and signed the book for me. I picked up two of his earlier books and read those first, but put this one aside. I finally got to it this week. I liked it. I loved it in the beginning. The closer we got to the end, the more grand battles we had and those aren't my thing to read about. Still, it was a satisfying story and I liked the humor a lot. less

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