Horusauge - Profile

Spoiler AlertRead up to 413 and I must say that, while I really endorse the overall idea and originality in some parts of the novel, I'm getting seemingly more frustrated with the writing style of the author.Don't get me wrong while I don't think it itself is that bad I find it severely lacking in quite some ways. One of them is the lack of details in a lot situations. It is relatively fast paced which is actually a rather good thing in my book but it annoys me that there are scenes that are handled in just a few paragraphs that have the ability to make the immersion so much better and deeper.An example would be the elite class courses that are shortened in a paragraph each at some point while it is such an amazing opportunity for the author to tell the readers more about the world and to suck them in while making it more clearly seen why the elite class is as important as claimed like a dozen times before. The way the author handled it left me just unsatisfied and that is sadly true for a lot parts of the novel.Another point would that there are nearly zero interactions for Emery with people outside the ("main") side characters. Obviously there some here and there but all in all I find myself thirsting for more to get to know Emery - and not only him - better because to be honest I think maybe the worst thing in the book might be the overall flat characters. We might get some background information for some of them but it can take hundreds of chapters for some which would be fine by me if only I could tell what type of person they are. Often they are just described shortly and with relative basic information so that you can have a really vague picture of them but it doesn't get to a more concrete point in a lot of causes.It also doesn't help that the novel uses a lot - and when I say a lot I mean a lot - of introperspection and summaries instead of dialogues and more detailed scenes.Additionally the author doesn't seem to know how to use the plural of a lot of words and while my grammar itself is quite bad if I must read Magus as plural of Magus instead of Magi one more time I don't know what will happen... No, jokes besides, the grammar might be relative bad or at least inconsistent but I definitely read quite a number of novels on this side that are a lot worse with doesn't diminish that this definitely should be improved/edited by the author.Maybe the last point at least for now is the predictionable path some of the plots in the novel took. An example for this would be stage 3 of the "Magus Games" (:-/) where Emery obviously wouldn't be able to win all of his five games - which I find quite realistic and fair - and had to fight and lose in the third round against the strongest acolyte of the second year like I could already see coming the moment that the format of the third stage was revealed...So... All in all it is an interesting story which I would love to read more of it only if the novel could draw me in more than it does at this point. Of course this is only my opinion and in the end it only matters that the author is happy with the story he told but me personally the novel couldn't really captivate me outside some great parts - that are there as well - although I really love the setting mostly because the writing style clearly isn't to my liking, so the 3 star overall review.Nevertheless I think that it might still a good read and fit for others since only because I don't get along with the writing style doesn't mean the same is true for another person. ^^