CSFF Day 3 – The Realms Thereunder Review

Hi again everyone!  Today is the final day for this month’s CSFF blog tour, and I’m relieved because the rest of the week won’t be quite as hectic, but also sad because it’s been fun so far!  Though this afternoon/evening, I’ll hopefully have time to go around and visit all my fellow tour participants!

So today, I’m going to actually review The Realms Thereunder.

I’m going to give you a warning – I don’t enjoy reviewing books.  I’m definitely a read-it and keep-it-to-myself kind of girl.  Part of this is because I don’t always know how to get my analytic thoughts out on paper (it’s been a few years since Freshman Comp in college ).  The other part is since I write so much, and I have 4 critique partners that I work/swap stuff with, I can’t seem to get out of critique mode.  So, my review may be a bit more technical from the story-writing point of view.

Overall, I very much enjoyed reading The Realms Thereunder.

CSFF Day 2 – A Peek in The Realms Thereunder

People, let me tell you it has been a crazy hectic week!  And it’s not even half over yet >_<.

First things first, though, we have a winner for the Restless Spirits giveaway from last week!

The Winner is . . .

Shannon McKeever!

Shannon, you’ll be getting an email from Amazon shortly with your Kindle copy of Restless Spirits.  If you don’t own a Kindle, you can download the app for PC or another device .

And, on to the CSFF part of this blog . . .

I sat down today and cleared my schedule, because I had reading to do – namely, finish The Realms Thereunder and read Halflings for the DAC so that I can send it on to the next person.  I did get them both done, in between caring for an under-the-weather husband and having a chiropractor appointment.

Reading The Realms Thereunder was fun.  It was definitely not the most intense story I’ve ever read, but it was an enjoyable read.  I’m not going to do an in-depth review right now, but I’m going to give a few impressions.

I’m going to reveal a little bit of my utter nerdness here – I used to do Lord of the Rings forum-based role-playing.  I role-played as a Rohirrim, and so familiarized myself with smattering of Old English.  I even served a stint as the Third Marshal of the Riddermark .

I bet I was one of the few of you that didn’t have to look up how to pronounce some names, or what certain letters were .  I’m pretty proud of that fact!

I kept having flashbacks to those role-playing days.  I also kept having flashbacks to The Hobbit every time someone broke into song . . .

That said, I found the story an enjoyable read, but it was still too easy to put it down.  I like books that keep me reading as quick as I can, and this one had the potential for it, but just didn’t quite draw me in.  We’ll touch on that a bit more tomorrow .

 

Disclaimer: Through participation in the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.