The EA cycle came highly recommended to me and is considered by some lovers of fantasy as one of Major cycles with a large M in the literature of the imagination. I admit my frustration of not being caught in this novel and it's quite the opposite has occurred, complete the novel was even difficult. I partly my disappointment by three main points: 1 to 1 world and characters of an absolute classic. The young Elahad Valashu is the embodiment of own paladin on him, refusing to death, which is quite difficult for a paladin who will conduct a semi-mystical quest to retrieve a ring, not here but a light stone, a gelstei as it is called in the book. Of course, this young and valiant knight is accompanied on his quest by a wise old scholar who will be the miracle worker of the group, a specialist in martial archery and other more or less caricatures. This same environment when described so nice to see poetry by the author inevitably made me think of the Lord of the Rings and the multitude of books derived therefrom; 2 to 1 slower pace bordering on boredom for some passages; the author describes us extensively places, landscapes visited by the protagonists of the story; 3 - lack of recoil of the characters and the seriousness with which all situations are apprehended. These three points have been indigestible for me despite the author's writing skills that they are excellent: the vocabulary is rich and worked with an incredible will to details. Do you know for example, that is a relative adjective vernal spring? All this to say that I would have liked to be conquered by this book to some literary qualities but unfortunately this was not the case.
