Book Review: Star Mage. The First Series

Book: Star Mage. The First Series by JC De La Torre with illustrations by Ray Dillon

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: December 16, 2014

Description:

JC De La Torre, author of the critically acclaimed novel Ancient Rising, gives us a new fusion of Science Fiction and Magic in Star Mage! Darien Connors discovers he's not from Earth, has strange magical powers, and is the key in an ancient war between two alien races of necromancers. Star Mage offers wizard battles with a side of spaceship warfare, alien worlds, and weird creatures.



Rating: 1 star

Review:

Um, this wasn't very good nor interesting. It felt like the story was trying to do too much as well as introduce too many different things. This feels like Harry Potter/Percy Jackson/Star Wars/Thor/Green Lantern meets some other random superhero comic book. It went from Darien Connors being picked on by bullies to him somehow out in space on a space ship. He found out that his parents were from a different planet and had been these magical beings. He's also found out that he needed to prepare for an upcoming war. He was then taken to the planet his parents came from so he can learn magic and to harness his power.

I thought the constant flashbacks throughout the story kept throwing off the flow and made the story appear choppy. There was also a lot of information and inventive words being dumped upon the reader. That wouldn't be a problem if this was well-written.

I would say this was geared towards kids except for the use of few curse words or one word uttered a few times. The writing is very simplistic and honestly I'm not sure who this book is for children, middle grade, young adult or older. Anyway it certainly didn't hold my attention and the story was far from being exciting and entertaining.

This was very boring. I'm glad I took a chance reading it but it was just really boring.