Lion Rising

Interesting story, good start.

4 stars

Good start to a series. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise that this *was* a book one, until I was over halfway through it and realised that the story was too big for it to be finished in one book. Normally, I’d buy the first book, but not read it until the second book was available. But who knows, it might be a trilogy.

My first impression was that Jayce was a bit young, and a bit whiny. I would have loved to see some anger from him, after all, he’s just been ripped out of this world to another, far less technologically advanced one, with elves and mages. It would have been good for Jayce and Rune to engage in serious snarky banter as a way for Jayce to deal with the situation.

I did begin to enjoy the book more as Jayce became more accepting of his situation and his character became stronger.

I would have liked less narrative, I’m not a fan of someone being in the middle of some sort of action, and he goes off for a few pages of internal musings and an internal monologue. I tend to skip-read those moments as they don’t add anything of relevance to the story.

But, yes, I will be reading the next book. When it comes out.