Age of Legend

All Filler, No Thriller

The whole book is pretty much setting up the next part of the series. Very little actually happens in this one, which I find very upsetting.
I have always liked not loved this series, mostly because it is light on concept and originality, but heavy on cool characters and excitement. This one had little character development and practically no excitement, so it was a huge let down.

I don't think I'm going to keep reading this series because what seemed like a fresh pre-civilization concept is falling into an old trope about elves, men, dwarves, with some people who can do magic and they have wars. Been there done that, and if you're going to just stretch the crap out of the story so you can keep putting out books every year, I'm out.

I was so shocked when this book ended because I thought we were just about to get to the interesting part, but my audiobook just stopped and ran the credits, and I was left thinking “Seriously? That's it?!” This book could have been written in three chapters, so if you're more committed to this story than I am, maybe wait for the next book and read a summary of this one.