Touch of Power

Hiermit hatte ich auf jeden Fall meinen Spaß. Das Grundszenarien wirkt nicht sonderlich einfallsreich, aber die Charaktere reißen es definitiv wieder raus. Mich hat vieles an Robin Hood und seine Marry Men erinnert. Wer Gefallen am found family trope findet, kommt hier definitiv auf seine Kosten. Die Romance ist seicht und langsam, praktisch gar nicht vorhanden - und ich mag das inzwischen soooo viel mehr als alles, was derzeit im Romantasy Genre zu finden ist. Es gibt ein oder zwei Augenblicke , in denen man sich denkt: "hmm, da läuft doch was?", aber hier geht's tatsächlich eher um den Plot. Letztendlich fand ich das Ende etwas enttäuschend und es fühlte sich alles zu einfach und leicht an, was mich jetzt nicht direkt dazu verleitet, weiter zu lesen. Vielleicht geb ich Band 2 ne Chance, mal sehen.

I really enjoyed this book - too bad that now I will have to wait a whole year for the next one to come out!

I really liked this book. I'm a little afraid though that the quality of the following books will drop, just like it happened in the Poison Study series. But I'll see. The world, consisting of 15 realms, had a lot of potential, which was a little wasted, since no map was introduced. At least that's how I felt. Avry and her companions undertake quite a journey and a map would've made this journey more replicable. The magic system had more potential as well. Out of the many forms of magic, only forest, life, and healing magic were talked about in detail. Since those three were very interesting, I bet the other forms would've been interesting as well. And I wanted to kiss the author for not making the magical reserves inexhaustible. Many authors do that with their "strong mages" and in my opinion it's just so far-fetched. The characters were well written as well. The travel party consisted of many different personalities, which made the banter amusing and the characters themselves distinguishable. But I have to admit an aversion against Avry's "perfection". She was just so pretty, intelligent, talented, empathic, funny, etc. and I can't remember a real error that would've made her more human or relatable. She was just so .... good.