It took me around 2 weeks to finish this one seeing that I no longer have the time to kill at work that I once had. I did end up spending a lot of time on my days off reading it because it's a good book, and because Alex lent out his PS3 controller and I couldn't play assassin's creed 2.
The book follows the life story of a legend among men named Kvote who begrudgingly agrees to tell his story over 3 days. This book is day 1. It covers his childhood, early teachers, and beginnings of his formal education. The larger story that is going to carry you through the next two books is started and there are hints of things to come that make the anticipation of the next book high.
I've discovered that long book (at least 500 pages) tend to have a more complete world in their covers. This book has songs, language, magic, and a long history completely thought out between its covers making the story far more enjoyable. While it looks like a daunting task to make it through a book that long the easy movement of the story and the richness of the world that it takes place in makes the task feel easy leaving you longing for the next installment or wishing that this book was longer.
Overall though it's a very good book and I'm looking forward to the second one in the series, but that's not coming out until August of 2010 much to my dismay. So if one has the patience for a book over 700 pages I strongly suggest picking it up.
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