Spellmonger

I love the concept of the story. However, the implementation seemed a bit off. I enjoyed the read, and will continue the series, but it seemed long-winded at times. As a quick non-spoiler example, at one point the author spent a good portion of writing covering the names, details, and short backstory of a group of mage's he was involved with. I would be okay with this normally, however, I don't recall any of those mage's having more than a mention through the remainder of the book. It just seemed like unnecessary character development. This type of divergence from the overall story, or activities happening at the time, happened a few times.

Given the above, gave it a 3, but would easily be a 3.5 if I could give it that :)