great but very dark!

First a quick note editing knew that I find beautiful: coverage to relief colors ,, an enchanting drawing made by the author himself, a full color card into the flap easy to find if you are lost, finally a bookmark in the colors of detachable book.
Not to mention that the coverage has not damaged at all in the course of my reading, which is rare with my books right now. Of course, writing is quite small, but you get used very well and avoids the waste of paper and the weight in the bag. Congratulation to Eclipse editions that offer us a superb book for a price as you would like to meet with each day (17 euros)!

As I said above, I really enjoyed the book. It's almost a heart stroke. Almost, because a little thing bothered me: the darkness of this book. Indeed, some passages are quite harsh, even really thought: blood flows freely and some descriptions really made me shudder. At one point I'm really wondered how the dark machine that took hold of the book was going to be defeated ... Besides the she be?

Apart from this small detail, I loved the book. I read it from beginning to end almost never able to put it down. The characters are endearing too. Everyone has a little something special to offer. I enjoyed the master's complicity with his apprentices, or that of Obrigan with Prince Jarekson.
I also loved the Book chapitrage: each day counts for a chapter and it allowed me to find my way quite easily despite the return to the past, while creating a countdown that energizes the book, if is required;).
The plot is huge and in the beginning, you can not expect everything you will read. It's like a thriller hiding among the trees of this fresco of fantasy. The style is very fluid like the blood that runs through this book: the author is a goldsmith of words. The descriptions are superb, each has its place in this novel, it's almost as if we could see the story taking shape before our very eyes.

The theme of the book is very original because the druids are not often mentioned in fantasy, not as the main characters in all cases. Nothing to do with Panoramix druid healers or video games. Here, the Druids are the guardians of a forest protected by an ancient pact between all men. They collect "lost" children to train and educate them in love of the forest and nature in general. The gift here is not innate, it is learned and hard work and an open mind, every apprentice can become druid.
Throughout the pages, he often seemed that the border between good and evil was very thin: trying too hard to do good, we do not have the disease? This is one of the questions raised by this novel. Another issue could be lying, but it has so many themes raised in this novel it is not possible to list them all.

The world imagined by olive Peru is very large and very prolific, as the associated mythology. This story is certainly there but it ended even imagine another in this green world.

This is the first novel of Olivier Peru solo and this is undoubtedly a masterstroke. I'll very quickly get into the series of Senior storytellers he co-wrote with Patrick McSpare.