Exile: The First Book of the Seven Eyes

author: Betsy Dornbusch

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.54

book published: 2013

rating: 3

read at: 2013/07/14

date added: 2013/07/14

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The book starts right in on the action, with the main character, Draken, being tossed off a ship into exile in the land of the country he has been fighting against for years. He anticipates his survival rate to be pretty low. His crime was apparently killing his wife, but he knows the truth.



Of course, he doesn't die, and along the way he makes friends and allies with a variety of interesting characters. There are banes loose, which are powerful supernatural creatures, and they may have been loosed by the person who killed is wife, a powerful wizard, or mance.



It's an interesting read. The world building is fairly solid with some nice twists on things I've read elsewhere. Everything comes a bit too easy for Draken along the way, and he seems to fall into the right situations just when he needs to. This didn't really bother me until the end. The writing is good and it kept me turning pages. I'm interested in seeing where the series goes, especially since so much happened in the first book.





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