![]() Whilst Luke plays the role of moody teenage boy admirably, its his off-siders who really steal the show. ![]() The result is a D&D style novel, with plenty of action, fight scenes that feel like they’re happening in front of you and recognisable and enjoyable characters.Īnd its with characters that Yallowitz excels. Yallowitz writes in present tense, which is slightly off-putting at first, but by 50 pages in you won’t even notice. Elves, halflings and gnomes, kick-ass warrior babes, dragons, drites, dwarves, gods and goddesses, warrior priests, even zombies get a mention. If you haven’t guessed it yet, this novel has more fantasy tropes than you can hurl a fireball at. ![]() ![]() His journey brings him face to face with poisonous snakes, cyclopes, spadixes, a very nasty Hellfire elf, and the evil Lich who controls it. He becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate the heir to the Kingdom, not only needing to locate the heir but also the assassin. ![]() I have to begin this review by saying that I haven’t read much self-published stuff (too many books in my book pile as it is!), but when the lovely Ionia at “Readful Things” reblogged a fantasy book giveaway hours after she was the first person to “follow” my blog, I thought that it was simply serendipitous that I read it.īeginning of a Hero, the debut novel of author Charles Yallowitz, follows the story of Luke Callindor, a young warrior half-elf with a famous name, desperate to prove his merits on his own terms. ![]()
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