Child of a Mad God
2018 • 496 pages
Ratings4
Average rating2.8
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Ratings4
Average rating2.8
From R.A. Salvatore, the legendary creator of Drizzt Do'Urden, comes the start of a brand new epic journey. When Aoelyn loses her parents, she is left to fend for herself among a tribe of vicious barbarians. Bound by rigid traditions, she dreams of escaping to the world beyond her mountain home. The only hope for achieving the kind of freedom she searches for is to learn how to wield the mysterious power used by the tribe's coven known as the Song of Usgar. Thankfully, Aoelyn may be the strongest witch to have ever lived, but magic comes at price. Not only has her abilities caught the eye of the brutish warlord that leads the tribe, but the demon of the mountain hunts all who wield the Coven's power, and Aoelyn's talent has made her a beacon in the night.
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I have so much in the way of mixed feelings about this book.
The main characters have excellent situational potential. The world contains characters and peoples with different backgrounds and reasons for them. There is interesting magic and danger. There are many events X people that move the plot. So much good here.
Unfortunately, there are repeated thoughts and phrases. Characters come to the same or the cusp of the same realization multiple times. There is violence and rape for the sake of violence and rape. There are oddities that don't seem to have a reason (such as the shape of the lake tribe heads) that comes up again and again. A bunch of little things bring the reader to mind that you are indeed reading a story and no longer immersed.
I wanted this book to be better. I'm not sure if I'll read the rest of the series.
