My first rented novel on Kindle Unlimited.

It was as good as some of Brian Sanderson's books. Reminded me of the Mistborn series. I hope the other books in Trysmoon series are as good as this one. ( )

[[This review is for the series rather than just this first book.]]

Have you read that fantasy series where a young, innocent boy raised on a farm becomes an amazing warrior/wizard/hero/chick magnet, gets a magic sword, and fights some great evil? If you did, you pretty much already read the Trysmoon saga.

The author does put in some twists to break from the genre's tropes, I especially liked how he changed up the "chosen one" stuff. But overall he follows the formula relatively closely. The romance bits take up too many pages for my taste and as the series goes on we spend quite a bit of time in characters' heads as they pine for each other, made more unpleasant than usual because the main love triangle is a bit icky. My final quibble is that it seemed like the 7 or 8 villains that were practically indestructible could have killed the fragile heroes any time they wanted, and it's never quite clear why they don't.

All that said, I liked the books. They were good, they were affordable, but they weren't great. I think the author has a lot of potential and I will definitely check out his future works. If, like me, you have kindle unlimited and want to read a fantasy series without paying $50 for the privilege, these books are worth a look. ( )