What do You think about A Hero Born (1997)?
I'm about 2/3rd of the way through, and I'm not going to bother finishing this. There's much more on my shelf that I'd rather get to.It started out really well with an interesting premise, having the chaos behind the wall, and introducing characters and a realm warped by it but so little was done with it, as it was just brushed aside as "evil, destroy it."So many exceptions to the world were used just for the sake of pushing the plot and main character forward. We're told early on and numerous times how important badges are and how they demote respect in this world; but then the main character is allowed to access to situations and given responsibility far outside his ranking. Everyone just agrees with him, and moves along behind him.Eye-rolling, trite, and worst of all, mostly boring.
—Matthew
I really liked this book. I didn't give it five stars because half way through the book they still hadn't even assembled a team to send to Chaos. When they finally got to Chaos and their first battle, I felt like there were only 50 pages left, so it felt like the rest of the story was a bit rushed. For a while there, I thought for sure that there would be a sequel to the book. So I docked a star for the book making me question the length of the book. Despite that, I really liked the author's descriptions. I felt like I was right there in the action, learning about the Chaos world as Lachlan was learning it. I would have never guessed the ending.
—Shelli
