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Midwinter (2009)

by Matthew Sturges(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1591027349 (ISBN13: 9781591027348)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Pyr

review 1: Midwinter by Matthew Sturges was a good read. This is the first book in the Fae series. The plot didn't strike me as groundbreaking, though it is well written. Mauritane is a prisoner and former captain of the Seelie Army. He's recruited by Queen Titania on a secret mission to save the empire from destruction. After picking his band of travelers from the prison, a beautiful emissary from a foreign land, a nobleman, and a human physicist who is looking for a stolen human child, they set off across the dangerous Contested Lands with Queen Mab's Unseelie Army approaching the border. The characters are quite lovable, but I've seen them all before. I was expecting a little more from this one than I got. Still, I have the second book waiting to be read on my desk. I'm not willi... moreng to give up on the series, just yet.
review 2: Disgraced war hero Mauritaine collects several fellow prisoners to be his companions on a suicide mission for the Queen of the Seelie Court. Sadly, both the characters and their quest are bland and over-worn. Sturges relies upon basic fantasy tropes to tell a story with no meaning or message to it. The characters are cardboard, the world poorly thought out, the quest unenticing. Give this one, and its many cliches, a miss. less

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