The Heart of the Lion

I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway, otherwise I would have put it down after the first few chapters. I think the author must have had a thesaurus by his side as he came up with words like “viridian” and “rubiginous” in the first two pages alone. The characters are one-dimensional; for example, John is EEEVILLL, and Richard is Valiant. I also was annoyed by the abrupt end to the story. There seemed to be no resolution to the conflict.