I like stories with Amazons, but this one wasn't for me. Overall, I didn't feel like the characters were developed enough at the start of the story or were engaging enough for me to care about what they went through. There was also some head hopping between sentences and that just got on my nerves because it is unsettling. When the prized Tarlaeth is stolen from the neighbouring country of Gondor, Shalmar is called upon to recover it. Blurb: Shalmar is an Amazon warrior with a fearless reputation throughout her country of Gilsk. There was very little emotional involvement, and when emotion was brought up we were told about it rather than shown. It is the 1st book in the A Tale of Lifetimes series. The narrative read like a series of events the characters had to methodically work their way through rather than the story feeling like it was evolving organically around the characters. I did not form an attachment to these characters at all. That would have served the dual purpose of helping us to understand the world, but also to show us more of the character's personalities so they were not so flat. There was a lot of stuff that could probably have been worked into dialogue between the two main characters. It felt like the author wanted to squeeze all of the world they had built into the 179 pages, which is really short for this genre. The story was obscured by chunks of info dumping.
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