Customer Reviews

The Sacred Seven

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This book was painful to read. Important events are just sketched in and force the reader to pay close attention, lest he miss something significant, but the obvious is overexplained. No new twists are added to a fairly standard tale. The reader ends up working hard to wring a story out of the text, only to find it wasn't worth the effort.

A half-dozen characters gradually join together, sort of, and an enormous amount of space is wasted on backchat, while the central action gets slighted. The only real drama comes from scenes of burned out massacred villages, as if the author must keep our interest by evoking real historical horrors, because otherwise the book's contents are so uninteresting. I like fantasy tales, but to work they require storytelling skill, a sense of action and direction which this book lacks.

Typical, generic fantasy. The whole plot, setting and characters sound vaguely familiar, so unoriginal are they. I'd have to say the best thing about the book would definitely be the awesome cover. If you're really bored, it's worth a read, but otherwise, don't bother. This book taught me (once again) that judging books by their covers doesn't work.

I bought this book because the sequel had such an interesting cover. The sequel had recommendations by authors I liked, and I wanted another fantasy.

This was disappointingly bland. The world had neither depth nor realism, nor did any of the characters. The plot is ridiculous, and no adequate explanation was later given for it. The characters are all shallow and stupid.

From what I've read by this writer, I would say this is very typical. You can read far better things online for free. Why waste your hard-earned money on this junk?

The story idea was great, but it lacked a little bit of charcter depth. For the most part, the story was interesting and I really enjoyed the ride that it took me on. I'll keep Amy Stout on my mind in the future.

This is a wonderful full book about a female mercenary,her dragon companion and her other companions who go on a journey to save the land. It is full of wonderful surprises and the book constantly kept me on my seat waiting for what would happen next.