Seasons of Albadone

A short, fairy tale style read, but the old school kind of fairy tales where Hansel & Gretel murdered the witch at the end. Four separate but connected stories, one for each season, take us through some rather dramatic developments in Albadone.

I enjoyed this, and would've rated it a 4, except for a couple things: it felt perhaps too short (204 pages), so I ended up caring less for the not very deeply developed characters than I think the author intended. Also, it could've benefited greatly from an editor. Numerous plainly wrong uses of words and phrases - “stood to his feet”, using “donned” as an adjective, etc. - as well as the unnecessary italicisation of so many words, bumped me out of the story regularly.