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The Last Chronomancer
by Reilyn J. Hardy
I won this book in a giveaway and finally got around to review it.
A young boy named Artemis drags his brother along into a cave. Their guardian is killed, his brother abducted. At eleven he leaves his identity behind, flees, is taken in by a nice men and becomes Maestri.
He lives among Munfolk that means normal people. But his best friend Jace is not one of the Munfolk. When Jace nears adulthood he has to flee as the humans would surely kill the now able to transform werewolf, despite having taken him in when he was a kid. Artemis does not want to leave his best friend alone out there so they go together. But they seem to attract trouble wherever they go. At first they just want to go somewhere, but soon their quest truly begins and on their long and dangerous journey they make friends, enemies and many memories. And then there’s also Maestri dad, the Time Keeper who left his kids alone when he was six years old.
While the storyline and the characters were good, often scenes seemed to drag on for too long thanks to the immense wordiness of some sentences. Plus I didn’t feel as if there was enough word building to truly satisfy me. Plus the fact that especially in the beginning everything seems a bit thrown together (first we get his background story, then he is with the Dragon King and then he lives in Newacre) which makes it kind of hard to read and so I took a very long time to finish the book. Plus the world building did not always make sense, it would have been interesting to get to know more about what world they live in and why all those mystic creatures even existed.
Still it definitely had some very good sides. I especially enjoyed the diversity which was simply there and not made a big deal out of. Maestri is an ace aro boy who had never had any interest in a relationship. A main character who does not fall in love or have any romantic subplots is always a nice thing and I enjoyed it. There was also a bigender character and much racial diversity.
I also liked the characters and I think even the side-characters where nicely written.
All in all a satisfying read, but not an outstanding one. But the fact that it’s one of the first fantasy novels that I’ve read that includes an ace aro character makes the book very special and I will definitely read the second book when it comes out.
A young boy named Artemis drags his brother along into a cave. Their guardian is killed, his brother abducted. At eleven he leaves his identity behind, flees, is taken in by a nice men and becomes Maestri.
He lives among Munfolk that means normal people. But his best friend Jace is not one of the Munfolk. When Jace nears adulthood he has to flee as the humans would surely kill the now able to transform werewolf, despite having taken him in when he was a kid. Artemis does not want to leave his best friend alone out there so they go together. But they seem to attract trouble wherever they go. At first they just want to go somewhere, but soon their quest truly begins and on their long and dangerous journey they make friends, enemies and many memories. And then there’s also Maestri dad, the Time Keeper who left his kids alone when he was six years old.
While the storyline and the characters were good, often scenes seemed to drag on for too long thanks to the immense wordiness of some sentences. Plus I didn’t feel as if there was enough word building to truly satisfy me. Plus the fact that especially in the beginning everything seems a bit thrown together (first we get his background story, then he is with the Dragon King and then he lives in Newacre) which makes it kind of hard to read and so I took a very long time to finish the book. Plus the world building did not always make sense, it would have been interesting to get to know more about what world they live in and why all those mystic creatures even existed.
Still it definitely had some very good sides. I especially enjoyed the diversity which was simply there and not made a big deal out of. Maestri is an ace aro boy who had never had any interest in a relationship. A main character who does not fall in love or have any romantic subplots is always a nice thing and I enjoyed it. There was also a bigender character and much racial diversity.
I also liked the characters and I think even the side-characters where nicely written.
All in all a satisfying read, but not an outstanding one. But the fact that it’s one of the first fantasy novels that I’ve read that includes an ace aro character makes the book very special and I will definitely read the second book when it comes out.