Book Review, The Choosing by Jeremy Laszlo.

                Jeremy started with gusto and created a fantasy medieval world of gods, battling for control. The prologue got me hooked; the first few chapters fairly flew by as the Twins, Garret and Seth, set out on their life of adventure.

                Then the whole thing came to a crunching halt, when Sara arrived, the middle section of the book being more slushy romance than fantasy, made worse, by the 20th century slang, ‘Do I look cute.’ Then the hair removal cream and thongs were introduced. I almost gave up, but I’m glad I didn’t as in the end the book perked up to a level that I would like to read the second book in the series. Why? Because the slushy romance is over, they are together, let the fantasy fiction begin.

                Would I recommend this book? No, if it had some series editing and cutting back it could be good, Jeremy can write well and delivers.

                But fantasy books shouldn’t read like mills and Boon.

Jeremy Poole www.jeremypoole.net

Knights: The eye of Divinity http://www.amazon.com/Knights-Divinity-Novel-Fantasy-Series-ebook/dp/B005620I2M/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

A true fantasy novel, Dwarves, goblins and Elves (Birlotes), this story is very well written and the writer, Robert, E, Keller knows his craft. So what he has written is easy and enjoyable to read.

The book starts, and feels like a combination of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, not a bad thing as I love both of these books. Then it goes its own way as we follow our reluctant hero, Lannon, through his training and facing of demons.

This story could have been excellent and got five stars, it built up well, though some of the characters were a little inconsistent, then it started to flow well, building up to what I believed would be a final confrontation, then nothing. The story stops and they go back to training. I felt a little let down. I can understand there is more to come, however, an end should answer some questions and leave a cliffhanger of a big finale, this did neither.

Negatives said, it’s still well worth reading and well worth 4 stars.

Jeremy Poole

www.jeremypoole.net