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The Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn)

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A great book with a great storyline, something you can get stuck into and have a good laugh about, but it still retains the basic storyline and doesn't deviate from it. It managed to continue the first story(To Demons Bound) really well and I only have two complaints. 1. The writers, in the second chapter of this story, repeated the second last chapter of the last story which got a touch boring. 2.Sometimes, in this book, the speech style of Davin changes, and I'm wondering if that's on purpose(high style because he's of the nobility) or if that's just a place where the writers' styles haven't mingled well.

Other than those two points I thought the book was great and would recommend it to anyone who wants to try a light hearted sci-fi fantasy novel.

If you are buying this book for anything other then the Kindle don't bother downloading it. It has what they call DRM (Digital Rights Management). In a nutshell, They take your money and hold your book for ransom, I have used Calibre and still am out of luck.

In fairness, this book is simply the midsection of an extended story. Starting with the superior "To Demons Bound" this is the second of the Swords of Raemllyn series. I was tempted to rate this 3 stars because of its episodic nature, but it wouldn't really be fair to rate it, in isolation, lower than the surrounding two books. The amusing adventures continue from the first book; and the nature of the heroes' quest(s) becomes clearer. There is a noteworthy surprise midway through as a character named Glylina appears! Some shortcomings of this volume are that some of the episodes feel superfluous to advancing the plot, one or two gags have gotten a bit repetitive, and the fact that in the U.S. this book was published as a separate volume rather than combined with surrounding ones in the series (a fault corrected in the U.K.). But I have finished re-reading this book AND book 3 at the time of writing this review, and feel that the first 3 books of the series should be judged as a unit (as they were published in the U.K., possibly found through amazon.uk) and they earn the 4-star, superior, rating. Despite some flaws, they are page-turners! (In my youth when first reading this book 17 years ago, I had no such misgivings as listed above, and thus my former self gives a full 4 stars.) 6.3hrs.