Servant of a Dark God (Hardcover) by John Brown

from Jvstin

Disclaimer: I received this book via the Library Thing Early Reviewers program. John Brown's Servant of a Dark God is a debut fantasy novel that spoils some of its very good elements with some frankly clumsy mistakes and misccues. The fantasy world Brown posits a hierarchy of magical beings of wh...

from Homechicken

Like some other readers, I had a hard time getting in to this book There wasn't much that kept my interest in the beginning, or in the middle. And not so much at the end either. It wasn't a bad story, it's just that I didn't get a connection I usually feel when reading books. I didn't really care...

from Magentawolf

Unfortunately, this book started out slow, and it was very difficult to sustain my interest throughout to the finish. Talen (our 'hero') was an incredibly unsympathetic character and it's difficult to enjoy rooting against a protagonist who isn't supposed to be an anti-hero.

from saltmanz

Hum. Hrm. Where to start? I enjoyed Servant of a Dark God, for the most part. In general, books I enjoy get 3 stars as a baseline rating, to be modified in full- or half-star increments depending on my feelings toward the book. Overall, John Brown's debut novel did enough right to avoid a 2.5-sta...

from mapthis

The best way to describe this book would be "fine." It isn't bad, and it isn't great. Somewhere in the middle. I liked the overall plot and some of the details (and a nice twist near the beginning), but the main character wasn't very well done and the interesting characters weren't explored enoug...