Helpful Score: 2
I loved this whole trilogy, especially the first book. The author has a great humorous first person writing style, the main character is engaging and it's kind of like having a friend tell you a story instead of reading one.
In a lot of ways, it's a classic theme - unlikely hero, impossible odds, etc. But the hero is a memorian, sort of a librarian-scholar, and makes a lot of comments about history and culture so that you get to know the setting and characters in more of a conversational way.
The covers make it look like it's set in the classic high fantasy medieval type world but it seems to me it's really more based on a classical Greek theme.
In a lot of ways, it's a classic theme - unlikely hero, impossible odds, etc. But the hero is a memorian, sort of a librarian-scholar, and makes a lot of comments about history and culture so that you get to know the setting and characters in more of a conversational way.
The covers make it look like it's set in the classic high fantasy medieval type world but it seems to me it's really more based on a classical Greek theme.
