Another
book that’s been on my shelf for well over a year now and I really oughta take
a look at. Let’s delve into this world of griffins in Song of the Summer King.
This story
follows Shard, a young griffin in a pride of many others, ruled by the Red
King. Shard is actually the descendant of some of the last of the Vanir pride,
which was overtaken forcefully by the King. Shard now has to follow his heart
and find his destiny as he realizes he may just have to live up to his
heritage.
I didn’t
care too much for this one. By all means, it should draw me in, as I love
xenofiction from animal/fantasy creature points of view. But this book just
didn’t do it for me.
The first
thing was the characters. I didn’t connect to Shard. He idles about the place a
whole lot going back between his Red King loyalty and him being true to his
roots. I didn’t care about his internal conflict too much, it just seemed
obvious to me from the start that he should stand up against the Red King. I
don’t get where all the hesitation is coming from other than him being close to
the prince (Kjorn).
The writing
voice of the author also wasn’t very pleasing to read to me and it made me put
the book down more often than I normally would have. Shard often recalls random
lines throughout the book and it just feels a bit random and forced.
That said,
I do like the world building of this series. The griffin prides are all
interesting, I like the idea of their beliefs (such as not flying at night or
hunting fish) and of course the wolves. But none of it was good enough to make
up for the other downsides of the book. I don’t think I’ll be checking out the
other books in this series, this one just didn’t do its job selling me for the
series.
Rating: 3/5
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