Dean F. Wilson

This garners three stars - quite unusual for I quit reading 2/3 through the book. So why the high rating - Well, for starters Call Of Agon is written with unusual eloquence, one might just want to read it for the beautiful poems alone. In the fantasy genre world building is of the essence and again the writers delivers in triple A strength. A creative menagerie of monsters, convinces all across the board.
One of the characters, an audacious prince with a touch of the quixotic is so well-constructed that he alone makes up for the other characters who are for the most part rather flat and unassuming - this does unfortunately include the main character, a man of mysterious origin who had been hiding in a monastery that was attacked at the beginning of the book.
At last, there is the plot
I wished, I could say I merely got a nitpick with it. But my discontent runs much deeper here. The storyline is very episodic and its discordant parts that make up the hero’s quest just fail to excite. When all is said and done, it is the storyline that decides the readability of a novel. Ergo, I ran out of steam and quit reading.… (altro)