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I love the story, the idea, this magical world, but every few chapters or so I find myself face-palming at the unconvincing romance, the battles that Thor always wins by using his "powers" (little yellow balls of energy? How banal), and how every time he wins, the Legion and The Silver manage to look at him with even MORE admiration than before. I feel like ideas are being reused too frequently, when they weren't extraordinary in the first place.

[SPOLER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T READ THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS] I found myself captivated in the first book with Thor's battles and his gaining of loyal friends. I was bored out of my mind with his love-at-first-sight (which, like many other the author's ideas, is reused over and over and over again--WHY. DOES. EVERYONE. FALL. IN. LOVE. AT. FIRST. SIGHT. WITH. AN. ATTRACTIVE. WOMAN/MAN. WHO. HAS. A. "NOBLE". AIR. ABOUT. HER/HIM?!?!? Gwen sees in Thor a noble/proud man and falls in love with him immediately. Erec falls for a pretty blonde girl when he notices that she is too noble/proud for her current position. Oh, and then Reece loves-at first sight also- the pretty nurse, who, too, has that nobility.) I enjoy romance, but this romance is superficial. I'd rather have no romance at all and have an action-packed adventure instead of this poor attempt to squeeze in adolescent feelings. (As a side note, did Thor really impregnate Gwen at, what, fourteen years of age? come onnnn, Rice, give the guy more time to shine as the hero before his offspring takes over and becomes greater than he will ever be...) We are told that they love each other, so are we expected to just leave it that and go with it? I don't FEEL that they have any true feelings for each other; there is absolutely no depth. The same can go for the bromance within the Legion. We are told continuously by the author that Thor and Reece (and his other little pals) are deep friends, almost brothers, but we aren't shown that. Sure they save each other in the same-old, same-old battles, but the dialogue is lacking so much so that I cannot believe that their friendship is as deep as I am told.

Like I mentioned before, the ideas are frequently reused, such as when Thor goes to battle and comes back. "All the soldiers looked at Thor and the surviving Legion members with a new respect, with a look of awe." (Pg 267-but kindle pages change) Rice says something to this effect every time Thor succeeds. One can only get so much "new" respect before it becomes meaningless, degrading into plain words simply used to fill a book. Can I just add that a mere few lines after Rice says that the soldiers have a new respect for Thor and his friends, she says it again through Brom: "Brom's eyes opened wide with a new look of respect." Oh? More than that look of respect merely seconds prior? So...this must be really, really, reeaaalllly new respect.

There is so much more I could say about this book, but my "review" (yes, I realize this has become more of a outright pan) would be an even more jumbled mess than it is already; I'd go from example to example with no end.

I liked the first book, liked the next less, and the next even less. I can take it no longer and so I am writing this review. I still am continuing this series, however, because I am interested in seeing if Rice will ever mix it up. I will give her the benefit of the doubt, and besides, this trite series couldn't possibly get any more predictable, right? (EDIT: After writing this review, I tried to go back, but I got so fed up. I GIVE UP on this author. I really was going to finish the series in the hopes of her improving, but I just can't put myself through the angst of reading something so lazily written. I refunded both book 5 and 6.)

On the other hand, you might enjoy this book if you don't care about:
1. Character Depth-even Thor, while more developed, obviously, than other characters in the series, lacks true substance
2. Dialogue-PLEASE MORGAN RICE, MORE CONVERSATIONS WITHIN THE LEGION. REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME THAT WHEN THOR CAME BACK FROM HIS HOMETOWN, HE AND REECE HAD STAYED UP LATE TALKING?? YEAH. (235-but again, kindle pages change) WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? YOU CAN'T JUST SAY, "the two of them had stayed up half the night talking" BECAUSE THAT WAS THE LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME I REALIZED THAT "Oh, these boys actually DO have real conversations; so they really are supposed to be friends?"

The ideas are there; everything is set up to be a great story. The execution is lazy and disappointing.


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A Cry of Honor Book #4 in the Sorcerer Ring eBook Morgan Rice Reviews

Another installment about Thor, a burgeoning Hero, and his cast of one dimensional friends and colleagues. This series is a great example of the "neo-pulp" movement that seeks to satisfy readers seeking easy escape by using extremely stereotypical characters (almost caricatures!) on a short-cycle roller coaster of seemingly insurmountable doom followed by amazing victories from hidden inner strengths! While the books are well-edited (not sprinkled with silly grammatical mistakes and unintentional homonyms, the way much neo-pulp is) the lack of character development wears on me after 3 (short) books...I keep hoping that the wooden clichés will peter out, since there are some really good ideas in the books, but alas, they only get more predictable as the series goes on. I try to support new authors as much as possible, but I'm done with this. Or, to paraphrase, "Hulk smash!"
Still needs an editor....

I don't even understand how this is a book into itself aside from the fact the author wants more money for each "book" they put out.

This book was so short it could have been part of book 1. Neither book ends in a way that doesn't leave you wondering where the rest of the story is.

It's one thing to have a series of books, but each book has it's own storyline and resolution that is all part of a bigger picture ( Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are perfect examples)

This series feels like they played Eenie meanie money now to find the end of each "book"

I'm so tired of the repetitive sentences in every single book so far. I guess better stated it's rearranging the words later on in the next paragraph. Pretty sure I did that in high school to make word counts in my papers.... John went to the store.... vs To the store, John went. Same meaning... just reworded... stuff like that... does not flow well in a book
I buy these books because my son (now nine) liked them. I read them so he and I can talk about them. He is an avid reader and these were among his first bigger kid books. He has, as more books come out (Rice churns out a book every two months), begun to pick out glaring inconsistencies in the books and make fun of the one-dimensional characters. He is now reading books with more complex character development, and at nine, he sees the difference between this category of books and the Sorcerer's Ring books, and if you read these books, you will pick up on it much sooner than a nine year old boy. If my son continues reading these books, I will continue buying them and skimming over them, but I in no way enjoy the simplistic writing and silly story.

They are a step above the Magic Treehouse books (although I enjoyed the Magic Treehouse books more) but it is a tiny step and I am glad my son is beginning to move away from these simplistic books. Read them like they were written, quickly and without much thought, and they aren't so bad. Better yet, read them when you are eight and you will enjoy them.

BTW If someone in the Ring invented a gorget, he'd win a Nobel Peace Prize. Ninety-five percent of the people killed in these books are stabbed in the throat (like I said, unimaginative) and with a gorget, noone would die, and everyone could just get along!
I love the story, the idea, this magical world, but every few chapters or so I find myself face-palming at the unconvincing romance, the battles that Thor always wins by using his "powers" (little yellow balls of energy? How banal), and how every time he wins, the Legion and The Silver manage to look at him with even MORE admiration than before. I feel like ideas are being reused too frequently, when they weren't extraordinary in the first place.

[SPOLER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T READ THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS] I found myself captivated in the first book with Thor's battles and his gaining of loyal friends. I was bored out of my mind with his love-at-first-sight (which, like many other the author's ideas, is reused over and over and over again--WHY. DOES. EVERYONE. FALL. IN. LOVE. AT. FIRST. SIGHT. WITH. AN. ATTRACTIVE. WOMAN/MAN. WHO. HAS. A. "NOBLE". AIR. ABOUT. HER/HIM?!?!? Gwen sees in Thor a noble/proud man and falls in love with him immediately. Erec falls for a pretty blonde girl when he notices that she is too noble/proud for her current position. Oh, and then Reece loves-at first sight also- the pretty nurse, who, too, has that nobility.) I enjoy romance, but this romance is superficial. I'd rather have no romance at all and have an action-packed adventure instead of this poor attempt to squeeze in adolescent feelings. (As a side note, did Thor really impregnate Gwen at, what, fourteen years of age? come onnnn, Rice, give the guy more time to shine as the hero before his offspring takes over and becomes greater than he will ever be...) We are told that they love each other, so are we expected to just leave it that and go with it? I don't FEEL that they have any true feelings for each other; there is absolutely no depth. The same can go for the bromance within the Legion. We are told continuously by the author that Thor and Reece (and his other little pals) are deep friends, almost brothers, but we aren't shown that. Sure they save each other in the same-old, same-old battles, but the dialogue is lacking so much so that I cannot believe that their friendship is as deep as I am told.

Like I mentioned before, the ideas are frequently reused, such as when Thor goes to battle and comes back. "All the soldiers looked at Thor and the surviving Legion members with a new respect, with a look of awe." (Pg 267-but kindle pages change) Rice says something to this effect every time Thor succeeds. One can only get so much "new" respect before it becomes meaningless, degrading into plain words simply used to fill a book. Can I just add that a mere few lines after Rice says that the soldiers have a new respect for Thor and his friends, she says it again through Brom "Brom's eyes opened wide with a new look of respect." Oh? More than that look of respect merely seconds prior? So...this must be really, really, reeaaalllly new respect.

There is so much more I could say about this book, but my "review" (yes, I realize this has become more of a outright pan) would be an even more jumbled mess than it is already; I'd go from example to example with no end.

I liked the first book, liked the next less, and the next even less. I can take it no longer and so I am writing this review. I still am continuing this series, however, because I am interested in seeing if Rice will ever mix it up. I will give her the benefit of the doubt, and besides, this trite series couldn't possibly get any more predictable, right? (EDIT After writing this review, I tried to go back, but I got so fed up. I GIVE UP on this author. I really was going to finish the series in the hopes of her improving, but I just can't put myself through the angst of reading something so lazily written. I refunded both book 5 and 6.)

On the other hand, you might enjoy this book if you don't care about
1. Character Depth-even Thor, while more developed, obviously, than other characters in the series, lacks true substance
2. Dialogue-PLEASE MORGAN RICE, MORE CONVERSATIONS WITHIN THE LEGION. REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME THAT WHEN THOR CAME BACK FROM HIS HOMETOWN, HE AND REECE HAD STAYED UP LATE TALKING?? YEAH. (235-but again, kindle pages change) WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? YOU CAN'T JUST SAY, "the two of them had stayed up half the night talking" BECAUSE THAT WAS THE LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME I REALIZED THAT "Oh, these boys actually DO have real conversations; so they really are supposed to be friends?"

The ideas are there; everything is set up to be a great story. The execution is lazy and disappointing.