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The Nethergrim (2014)

by Matthew Jobin(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0399159983 (ISBN13: 9780399159985)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Philomel

series

The Nethergrim Trilogy

review 1: Many years ago a band of 60 went into the mountains to battle the Nethergrim. Three returned: the wizard Vithric, the warrior Tristan and the local John Marshall. The kingdom has been relatively peaceful since then. Edmund's family owns the local inn but he really wants to be a wizard. He hoards his collection of books and tries to teach himself spells. Katherine is John Marshall's daughter. She loves training horses and learning swordplay from her father. Tom is a slave to a horrible master. His friendship with Edmund and Katherine is the only light spot in his very dark life. Their lives change when several children are taken from the village, including Edmund's brother, by the monsters of the Nethergrim. John Marshall sets off to rescue them, but the children can't wait... more at home. Edmund, Katherine and Tom take off for the mountains on a perilous journey. They will discover scary truths about the Nethergrim, its history and what it wants with the children. This book reminded me a bit of the Lord of the Rings. There is an evil in the world and a band of heroes must find a way to defeat it. It is a pretty dense book for a middle grade novel and does get a bit slow in the middle. I wanted the kids to set off on their journey much quicker than they did. There is a lot of backstory and preparations to get through before they head for the mountains. The last quarter of the book is pretty exciting with some interesting revelations about the Nethergrim and what happened to the band of men years ago. This is the beginning of a series so the next books will hopefully pick up the pace a bit.
review 2: This is not the best book of all times :-), but I'm giving it 5 stars for encouraging author to keep going and continue his work. I also bought the book on Amazon for the same purpose despite it's relatively high price.I can see several holes in plot and some weaknesses in development of main characters, some relations between them are formulaic, but otherwise the book is very refreshing for YA fantasy genre. Especially, how author have chosen the triad of the main characters. The 14-year girl who can fight with her sword evil fantasy creatures: that's something!Just want this story and world gain more depth in further books. less

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