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Ingledove


Well, so far this book is turning out nothing like I expected.

For one thing, the main character's brother has not disappeared yet. The first chapter spent a few pages foreshadowing some big fiasco where the brother, Lang, will be held captive by some sort of snake monster. Now on their trip back to their home from visiting their parents graves Lang has yet to encounter much danger. Stemming from that, there hasn't been any sort of epic quest to save anybody. Instead the conflict of the story isn't saving Lang from a danger already encountered, but it's stopping him from encountering it in the first place. 


So to begin the book I decided to read in a huge splurge so that I didn't have to worry about it during spring break, so as such I was able to read about half way through. Now halfway through, my previous predictions of the book have scored no points.

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Author of Ingledove:
Marly Youmans
As the siblings make their way back to their home Lang begins to hear a faint but beautiful voice in the air. Ingledove, remembering the prophecy told to them about Lang's future misfortune is stuck trying to stop him from following that voice. The story isn't bad, but I would've liked to see more things happening. There haven't been very large confrontations with a big bad enemy yet or anything of the sort so I haven't really been engrossed in the book. This is disappointing but not the end of the world. After all, I've already read quite a few fantasy books that relied on hack-and-slash action to keep me in, so this is a nice change of pace for me in the fantasy world. Let's just hope this version of fantasy can keep me immersed like the others.

Just because the story isn't as fast paced as I'm used to doesn't mean I've lost hope on the book. I'm sure it'll be able to hook me some other way that I haven't experienced yet. That being said, I'm predicting that this will happen soon. If not then the prophecy told in chapter 1 will surely save me.

That's  all I have to talk about so far so until two weeks from now I will keep finding more things to say.

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