Helpful Score: 7
I could not read this book. The writing style did not capture me and I could not get past the first chapter. My wife read it and gave it a good review.
Helpful Score: 5
I seriously enjoyed the movie "Willow"; this book and the other two in the series "Shadow Dawn" and "Shadow Star" supposedly continue Willow's story. I've wanted to read these books for a while, because the movie *sorta* left me with a question or two. All this series did was CONFUSE me. I'm an avid fantasy reader, so it's not like these are out of my genre, but the way the books are written, the "explanation" of how the "magic" works, even the events in the book, are so boring and confusing that after I forced my way through this book I had no desire to read the second. It took me a year and major desperation for something to read before I picked up #2. Two and a half years after I forced my way through 2, I finally read 3. Wasted time. I enjoyed the side panel of my cereal box more than this series. There was serious potential after the awesome movie, but they missed the mark by a mile with this series.
Helpful Score: 2
First, I did read the whole book and I am an avid fantasy fan. This book needed a much firmer editor's hand than it got. It rambled, it left key parts of the story underdeveloped and the whole denouement after the climax left me feeling as if I was starting another book rather than wrapping up the first one.
