Green Rider

If I was to ask you to imagine a standard fantasy pot boiler, you'd probably come up with something like this. It's not bad, it's just very predictable.

We have a young heroine, a King, a shadowy "grey" rider, heapings of magic and of course a lot of coincidences. All the elements are in place for your basic fantasy story.

All of which sounds kind of bad. It's really not though. It's just average is all. There are points where writing is a little heavy handed, and I'm still not sure why the author took the time to introduce certain characters since they just seem to be left hanging. But for all that the heroine is appealing and the story moves along quickly sweeping you up with it.

While the setting does feel like generic fantasy land #53 at times, it also feels like there might be potential here to make it something more. This was the first book the author had published and there are a few sequels. I'm actually quite curious to see if the author was able to take these basic elements and develop them into something more distinctive.

All in all it's an easy and workmanlike read, but it's not really very special.