Rise of the Mages

Got about 3/4 of the way through and decided I had better ways to spend two hours than finishing a book I really didn't enjoy. My main gripe is that the main character is so stupid that I don't care what happens to him. While early on it was less annoying because he had time to grow as a character, his whiny insistence that “he has to do something” continued non-stop and it became grating. A moderately (if mostly unoriginal) premise is ruined by crappy character development. Too bad.