Nomad Scry

Unengaging. There are horrors here but they are consistently glossed over. 

I liked everything except using real world country names in a purely fantasy story and the secret, which made my heart drop.

So Rand Al'Thor is being raised by Fizbin when he runs into Aragorn and Dobby the Elf. He gets captured and meets Kahlah/Hermione. (etc.)

I like the ideas and there's nothing wrong with the writing, which is on part with the prior books, but there are too many characters and too many of them are Culture ships. Perhaps it's just a factor of the audiobook medium but the communications between Minds were opaque and confusing.

I generally enjoy stories that reference religious trappings (the afterlife, demons, creators, etc) when they aren't themselves religious stories. Nix has created a deep and unique supernatural world that resembles a popular variant of religious stories yet falls off into new imagining at the barest reading. The main character is also a mix of the tropes (from a middle-school novel POV) and interesting differences.

I wish my kids would read literally anything I recommend (they won't) because I think they would like this one... Though it's always how well a landing sticks that ultimately determines how I feel about a story. With that end another six books away, I don't yet know if this will end up being a two or four star story for me.

In the end, the story ends. It's weird because the conclusion is competent and makes sense. It even seems to be appropriate for the audience. But I wanted more and that might be because the last three books felt rushed and not sufficiently distinct and the conclusion came (and went) too quickly. It's a good story with a good ending and I'm really not satisfied.

Good job Alice!