Enchantress is an epic
fantasy by anyone’s standards, focusing primarily on the lives of brother and
sister, Miro and Ella. The books starts with Miro in training to become a
warrior and Ella, running a simple flower stall in the hopes of earning enough
money to study enchanting at the academy. Without going into too much detail
the sibling strive through many difficult situations and Miro goes into
training to become a magical fighter known as a Bladesinger and Ella enters
into training to become an enchantress.
Now, I liked the book,
didn’t love it. It was free from the kindle store but I still would have
expected better proof reading to have taking place. I can see the scope of the
story and this the author tried really hard to bring everything together but
sometimes the writing just didn’t feel as well structured as it could. As I was
reading I almost felt I was re-reading to correct sentences in my head which
made the going difficult and quite laborious. For instance one sentence which I
cannot forget said, “Sweat dripped from his forehead to drip down his forehead,
running into his eyes.” Just little thing like this made my not enjoy this book
as much as I should have. Also I found same of the made up names for people or
places hard to read, and just didn’t flow that nicely. As an avid fantasy
reader I am not new to made up names/terms/places/phrases etc. but I have never
been slowed down quite this much.
However the book picked up
in the last 10% and finally become the story it should have been. I probably
will read the rest in the series as this first book may have been a learning
curve. Also I would like to see more development of Ella and Killian (possible
red-haired love interest) as this started in this first book and then they
ended up in different places. You do get a lot of story in this book, it almost
feels like a trilogy in one volume. I have read much worse books but I have also
read many better books unfortunately.
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