When the back cover I read that the author was a game player roles, and miniatures games, I thought we'd get along, I like as much as the other . But I did not expect to feel like reading a piece of RPG-end report, complete texts end. The author would have added to the middle of the text "Torfa made a perception test, he launches D20" (a perception test is used to find out if there are enemies or treasure in a room), I would have totally found in his place.
In fact, it's so RP (RolePlay)! Especially exchanges between characters! This is typically what can be heard around a role-playing game table! It is winded, exaggerated, funny at times, but this is really not what one expects from a fantasy novel.
Apart from the dialogues, the characters are exaggerated. Whether Röllgard the addicted dwarf its beer Joj the elf who knows incredibly well to fight, Ard thief / assassin / rogue (I did not catch its class, but the three are so good together), which is incredibly good to steal / kill quickly and quietly, and Torfa the mountain which is the typical example of a character who starts level and earns its levels each battle, the player unaccustomed to long games in role play will quickly tired.
And yet I, who likes it, spend half the book, the style "role play" really starting to wear me down. We know that the main character to a destiny, so it will not die as long as it will not be accomplished with his traveling companions, it was not the usual thrill during a battle, with the hope that our main character is in out alive, since in any case, he will live to the end.
Despite the fact that I felt more in a role-playing game that fantasy novel, I had a hard time with some of my reading to understand certain phrases. Many shells are noted and on the end, I found it particularly badly written. Like a shopping list, we are told the last battle in outline: "Here he cuts an arm There he did it Here the enemy did this ect ect..." The author did not bother to explain more than that the key moment that we expected from the beginning of history.
This novel hand on a good foundation, unfortunately, too little used. Readers who know nothing about the role play will not know note the similarities and will soon face this rather blasé exaggerated style. In short, it will cling to finish it to the end.
Thank you to the Pantheon Publishing and forum Have a Break, Have a Book for this partnership.
