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A March Of Kings (2013)

by Morgan Rice(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1939416051 (ISBN13: 9781939416056)

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Morgan Rice

series

The Sorcerer's Ring

review 1: Completely unimpressed. I had a promotion to get books 1-3 as a bundle so this review is for all three. I don't know where one began and one ended. Problem 1 - Morgan Rice is not a good writer. At one point, she's describing a character's since of purpose in a dream sequence and out of 6 sentences, 3 said the same thing "this is where he was supposed to be." Amazingly, the first and second sentence were nearly identical with only 2-3 words differing. It's like her publisher said, "We need another 1000 words" and instead of adding to the plot, she just decided to add repetitive sentences throughout the existing story. Also, she occasionally uses words she thinks she knows what mean, but she really doesn't. Problem 2 - She has a primary character that is obviously intended t... moreo be a strong female character, but she undermines that strength constantly. Every time she acts or speaks with authority, she feels "the power of her father" rising up in her. So really, she's not strong, she's just channeling her dead dad. Also, her world is still horribly sexist and treats women as property and prizes. Problem 3 - Inconsistency. She has a dragon that is large enough its footprints leave "canyons" that are "hundreds of feet deep," but its claws are only as big as trees. She did not indicate ancient redwoods so I'm assuming she intended an typical, large tree. So really its claws are super tiny finger nails? And say they are the size of trees - when a human gets swiped by something that much bigger than him, he doesn't get shred to ribbons. At the right angle he might be cut in half, but not shred. Also, the dragon's legs are only as big as 50 men. 50 six foot men would be only 150 feet tall laid end to end. But the footprints are hundreds of feet deep? This animal also lives on a island. The characters traverse this island for half a day without seeing it. A creature that leaves canyons in the earth when it walks. Really? The "island" would have to be more like a continent. Problem 4 - Just not interesting. Rice wants to be a little George R. R. Martin and have an epic series with a dozens of characters with interweaving plot threads. However, much of it seems completely unconnected, only one or two of the characters is even remotely interesting or written with any depth, and there is no sense of an overarching plot. Remember - I read THREE books in the series and only at the very end of the third book is there any hint of a greater epic plot to accompany this hodge podge of mostly boring stories played out by fairly boring characters. Needless to say, I'll not be picking up another book by this writer and do not recommend them. Each book could be cut in half by a half-way decent editor (and should be). And Rice should have more respect for her readers. You don't have to beat anyone over the head with the same point fifteen times. Once on a page and maybe a reminder or two later in the story sure, but not literally an entire page of "Oh I love him and I hope we can be together."
review 2: I enjoyed this book, it expands on the first one and ends on another cliffhanger to get you to read the next installment. This book focused less on Thor and more on the Royal family and their investigation of their father's assassination. For some reason, Erec gets a couple chapters to himself in this one just to tell us about his journey to find a wife. I didn't really care about that character or him finding a wife and I didn't see how it added to the plot of this book, it seemed to just be there to add to the word count. Otherwise, the rest of the story was good and I have started book 3. I am enjoying this series, despite its flaws. less

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