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I'm an aspiring writer currently working on my second book, I am also the father of two and have a long-standing engagement with my fiance. I can stick my tongue out and touch my nose, go from 0-30 in a second falling down the stairs, and I'm ambidextrous.
I live in the heart of the Rocky Mountains in the great state of Montana.
Reviewed by Michelle Randall for Readers' Favorite
Forget everything you learned in school about the world and the planets. Imagine a series of worlds, we'll call them realms for this story. Each is different, has a completely different landscape, ecosystem, native peoples, and technology; yet they are all connected through a series of central portals. One portal going to and from each realm. Interested? This is where The Books of Azric begin. Helping us get a little history into the whys and hows of this world is Zane, a young elf boy that bounty hunter Colt has taken under his wing, so to speak. Since Zane has had no schooling, Colt teaches him what he knows, a little at a time. But this isn't just a story of a bounty hunter teaching his apprentice; no, they are being hunted by a villain. At the same time they are hunting the villain, all of which has been set up by a slightly dishonest nobleman and a mysterious man talking about the true lineage of the king. Author B.M. Griffin gives the reader so much to digest that at times you are not sure who is really the good guy and who is the bad guy.
While The Books of Azric is listed as the first in a series, it definitely sets up the worlds and gives you some knowledge of the worlds, and just enough to keep you sort of knowing what is going on, but not enough so that you just have to keep reading to figure it all out. The cast of characters that author B.M. Griffin created in this book is amazing too, because you don't just have your main characters, you have three to four full story lines going at any one time with a full cast of characters. Now sometimes those characters overlap with each other and other times things are going on in one realm at the same time as in another realm. The author engages all your senses in trying to keep everything straight and at times you think you know what is going on, only to find what you thought was wrong. This is a great story, with definitely lots of violence. It's bounty hunting and crimes and sheriffs, but not too graphic. Young adult and up would be a good audience.
