Sovereign's Wake

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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I don't normally get into the nitty-gritty of the writing when I compose these posts – not because I don't notice or care about it – but sometimes you have to. When I can't make it past the first three paragraphs without the writing drawing attention to itself (not in the delicious way that Neil Gaiman or Don Winslow do so often), I feel like I've got to mention it.

In a different time, there was a forest that was as deep as it was plentiful. . .

That boy, Novas, possessed deep green eyes as verdant as the wild around him . . .

. . . He was taught that the land was just as alive as he was . . .”

“Over my employment, many people tried to kill the King, and it was my duty to stand in between them. Instead, I put them to death...”

In order to reach the capital of Amatharsus, their journey was not an odyssey of undertaking.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. I really wish this had been more timely, sorry about that.