Seven Princes Audiobook

" Solid debut from a gifted guy. I did have trouble after my reading was interrupted, getting back into it. Not sure why. It's definitely complex and has a lot of characters to follow. IT's called Seven Princes for a reason. It's dark. But it's also engaging. I really got hooked early on getting into it so not sure why it was so hard to pick back up. Whatever the case, solid world building and storytelling and definitely worth a look for epic fantasy, sword and sorcery fans. "

" Nice premise, though it did take a while to get into it. "

" I couldn't help but think that this book was a draft to another story an outline as such if put together well it would have been magnificent "

" Better than I thought it would be, much better than some of the reviews on here. "

" It was so long and felt that way. Also, I started to not care about anyone by the end. Where is the drama in forming an army and bringing together mighty countries when there are a handful of people in the world that can kill them all in a matter of moments. If there are ALL powerful beings in a story then i dont really care about what other people are doing because I know it will be completely ineffectual. "

" I'm not exactly sure what happened with this book -- despite some decently engaging magical scenes, overall this was a tedious read. The characters were fine; a bit stereotypical, but well-formed enough for basic fantasy. And the backstory of the fantasy world was adequately drawn. It should have been more fun to read than it was. A big problem was the descriptions. While the language was vivid and often elegant, there was also just too much of it, sometimes without a strong point-of-view, so that I just got bored by the pure narrative evocation of place and history. Mainly, though, I think the problem was in the pacing, especially the construction of the chapters. There were definitely great chapter endings, with cool and interesting scenes coming nicely to an exciting head -- but then the beginning of the next chapter seemed to always start with a chunk of flat narrative description, and I was kept feeling put off from starting it up again. Sometimes it's better to avoid ending a chapter with climax and instead trail off into some denouement while seeding interest in the upcoming scene. Or end with cliffhangers instead of resolved scenes. That's my stab at explaining why reading this book was such a slog. It shouldn't have been. Good stuff was going on . . . but not consistently. "

" A great story. Can't wait until book 2. "

" I didn't enjoy this as much as many of the other epic fantasy novels I've read lately. It wasn't BAD, but it didn't grab me in the same way. Almost seemed a little scatterbrained maybe? "

" Wonderful, descriptive writing. I don't usually go for this genre but I really enjoyed this book. Looking forward to the other two in the trilogy. "

" Outstanding book, like it so much that I am currently reading The Seven Kings from the same author. "

" The sentences are certainly well constructed. Unfortunately, the narrative generated as a result is not. "

" Despite the other reviewers' comments here, I enjoyed this, though I felt that after several hundred pages of building up tension and discussing the difficulties of the final fight and the power of the bad guys, the climactic battles were pretty anticlimactic. "

" I didn't really like the writing, but some aspects of the world were appealing. "

" Not so great, I skipped large chunks to get to parts I thought would be interesting...maybe because he had so many different characters and the rules of the world were inconsistent. "

" It was OK for a first novel. I read a review that it was an over the top epic fantasy, but it was kind of run of the mill. It had some great background and ideas, but it seemed rather flat. "

" I enjoyed this book greatly! Can't wait to read the next book in the series, definitely an author to watch. "

" Epic fantasy filled with wonders and terrors and war and strange magics. Fultz lists as his influences Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee, Darrell Schweitzer and Lord Dunsany, which means he couldn't have aimed this book more directly at me if he'd tried. Highly recommended. "

" This is an excellent story told very vividly, almost too vividly for me in it's descriptions of some of the horrors happening to the people. A little more blood than I normally like. But it is a good story and I really liked it. "

" Started out slow -- the writing style seems a bit stilted at times, as if the writer had trouble settling into one voice and staying there for any length of time. The story was very good though. "

" It was fun, and definitely EPIC with a capital 'E', but I never got to the point where I cared much about the characters, either good or bad. "