Col Buchanan's Farlander is a promising but frustrating fantasy debut. The prose throughout is solid (and stays out of its own way), the setting is well developed, and the action is effective (if unspectacular). I also especially like the author's choice to give us a lot of villain POV chapters. ...
I was surprise at how much I came to enjoy this book. It opens with an interesting scene that intros us to our protagonist, this world and the order in which our "Old Man" Protagonist exists.We do then launch into a rather slow progression of viewpoints and stories that set up the story and then ...