- Title:
- The Weave of Fate
- Author:
- S.L. Matthews
- Release:
- January 6, 2020
- Format:
- Audiobook
- Narrator:
- Amie Lyn Hornick
- Series
- Mists of Kel Doran: Dragon-Touched
This is a book I want to like and I want to say positive things about it, but I find it difficult. It’s not a bad book by any stretch of the imagination. But it just drops you into the middle of the world with no context and expects you to sprint.
I received the second book as a review copy and I couldn’t follow the plot to save my life. So I purchased part 1, thinking it would clarify my confusion. Nope. It just feels like I was dumped in the middle of a book or it feels like book 1 is actually book 2.
There’s an entire scene about a woman being turned into some kind of an onyx person or something like that. It’s at the beginning of the book and is never mentioned again. I think she returns in part 2, but I tend to move on from one book to the next so I don’t remember. Either way, I find that annoying as all hell. What did that add to the story? Confusion.
As I often say with fantasy books I review, the author has a way of describing things seldom seen anywhere else. Checking my notes for my review of part 2, I wrote ” The author paints a world with words. The combat scenes are very well written, despite me not knowing the context of the world.” which rings true for this book as well. The scenes with combat are captivating and intense.
The narrator does an excellent job, with one exception. She says “acrosst” instead of across which is seriously annoying. That annoyed the hell out of me with part 2 because the word across seems to be used constantly and I found myself getting annoyed every time she said a word that ended with t. I can’t stand people mispronouncing basic words and I find it even more unforgivable when they’re a professional voice actor or narrator.