On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

Short review: I picked this up about 7 years ago not long after it initially came out. But I didn't read it. Last year I picked up the audiobook when it was on sale because it has been 6 years and I hadn't read it. I finally started the audiobook last week because I was trying to listen to stuff I already owned instead of buying something new. I didn't connect with the audiobook. The production quality was find. The reader was fine. I just didn't like it.

So I switched back to the kindle edition and finished it in a couple of days. I am now about 2/3 of the way through the second one and will probably finish up the whole series in a couple weeks.

This is pretty standard middle grade fantasy. It is well written and action focused but more than just a string of action sequences. There is character development. I used to read a lot of middle grade and young adult fiction. But I got a bit tired of it. Too much of it was too similar.

This isn't widely outside of the standards, but it is well written and enjoyable. And I do want to read more fiction and a lot of what I have been reading has been pretty heavy. This isn't light fiction as far as theme goes. The family is running for their lives by the end of the book. But it does respect the child reader and I probably will read these to my kids when they get older.

My not at all longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/on-the-edge-of-the-dark-sea-of-darkness/

If you are interested Andrew Peterson is attempting to make this into an animated series. You can find more at http://wingfeathersaga.com