Friday 10 August 2012

Review- Tredan's Bane by Lita Burke

Title: Tredan's Bane
Series: Tredan's Bane
Author: Lita Burke
Published: June 30th 2012
Book 1 
(Sent by the Author)
Lanith is the wife of a former enchanter who is lost throughout the midst of a war between Church Magicians and fellow Enchanters. Lanith is on a quest to seek her missing husband after discovering their store and overhead apartment emblazoned in flames. There is nothing left of her possessions and she had specific instructions from her husband to find the Enchanters if anything happened to him. Taking him up on his word, Lanith seeks to find an Enchanter who will help her find her husband and stumbles upon Enchanter Nyle. A friendly relationship develops between them as they embark for their quest to save Tredan. Along the way, Tredan's journal is found and it contains dark magic on ways to torture and Enchanter, remove his/her powers and other horrific ways to cause any Enchanter harm. Questions without answers are left flowing throughout Lanith's mind and she begins to wonder if her husband is the man that he claimed to be.

The first thing that I loved about this novel is the pure originality of the plot. It leaves you in awe and makes you wonder how the author came up with such an amazing tale. The way she descibes how the characters feel or react to certain situations is expressed in a way that I have rarely ever seen before. I also loved how some characters have their own murky pasts that always ends up catching up to them in the future. The characters are unique, have great personalities and there are twists, betrayals and more.

I mean no offense to the author, but I disliked the cover of this novel very much. It does not show any excitement or talent that is portrayed in the content. The cover does not do justice to the novel and it doesn't show any symbolism of the actual plot except for the picture frame with Tredan's Journal. It is really bland and should show a little more colour and the main image should be more symbolic. I did however love the amount of magic in the book. It just overflows off the pages and it is a perfect example of the originality in the book. The only thing wrong with the new magic introduced is that it is not all explained. I am left guessing what the properties of the types of magic actually do.


Overall, I absolutely loved the content of the book and will be eagerly awaiting its sequel. I recommend it to all the "magic-lovers" out there. All that I think could be improved is the cover of the book and the explanations of the magic. The positives of the book however, rule out most of the negatives and I am rating this novel:



Rating: 4/5

13 comments:

  1. Nice review Daniel, glad you enjoyed it more then I did. Did you really have no trouble with the dialogue? I had a really hard time getting used to it and got mixed up a lot of the times and had to guess who said what. Also the magic was hard to understand ad it seemed to drag on a lot. That's why i'm still 1/4 through. Anyways nice review, I totally agree about the cover. Some mprovements could be made :)

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    1. Hi Nic, thanks for the comment! I did have a little bit of trouble with the dialogue and sometimes got a little mixed up but it didn't happen very often. And about the magic... like I said, it left me guessing what the magic did because it wasn't explained all that much... Thanks Again.
      ~Daniel~

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  2. Hi! I'm from the GoodReads group, I'm following you now.

    Here is my link to follow me back
    http://onlectus.blogspot.com

    L:-)

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    1. Thanks Lectus, I am now following you :)

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  3. Hello Daniel, this sounds like an "okay" read but I agree with you about the cover. I'll be keeping a lookout for your other reviews because they are really good!

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    1. Thanks Michael... I really appreciate your comment. You should definitely read this book if you love magic. I know about the cover, but the content will not disappoint
      Thanks...
      ~Daniel~

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  4. Good to know the cover doesn't reveal all the good things inside.

    NEW FOLLOWER.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    http://silversolara.blogspot.com

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    1. Hi Elizabeth, the cover definitely does not reveal the good things about the novel. I have now followed you as well :) Thanks for the comment,
      ~Daniel~

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  5. Hi Daniel,
    Thank you for reading Tredan's Bane, and I appreciate the time you took to write a great review. It pleases me to hear you wanted to know more about the Enchanters' magical "science." There was much I regrettably cut out because the story was already too long. I'll try to do better explaining the magic in the sequel. Ditto about improving the “who said what” in the dialogue.

    Ah, the cover. This cover design was the least of the evils available within my very modest budget. Other cover designs were horrible--really. My apologies to everyone who is disappointed with this one. As the saying goes, you can't judge a book by its cover, and I hope you will give this story a chance despite this cover. Nevertheless, I'll change the cover in subsequent editions.

    I am so glad you liked the plot and the characters. I hung out with these story people for almost three years, listened to their perils, wrote them down, and tried to get everything right.

    Again, thank you for reading Tredan's Bane and taking the time to share your thoughts about the story.

    With warm regards to Daniel and all my Gentle Readers,

    Lita Burke

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    1. Hi Lita,
      It was my pleasure to read this fantastic novel. The whole story was amazingly written. I wouldn't of minded a little more information about the Enchanter magic but it was great with or without it.

      As for the cover, I really do understand your situation. I honestly do think that this is one of those books with the saying: "You can't judge a book by its cover". It was amazing and I think a lot more people should read it.

      The characters were really unique and I really liked them. It is obvious that you put a lot of time and effort into writing this novel and may I say that it payed off.

      I will be eagerly awaiting the sequel of this fantastic novel and I am really happy that you asked me to review this,
      Sincerely,
      ~Daniel~

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  6. I definitely agree with you about the cover, I think it could be improved but it does sound like a good story with interesting characters! I will be sure to look into it. :)

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  7. Thanks for the comment Alex... I know about the cover but the storyline makes up for it big time!! You really should purchase it
    Thanks again
    ~Daniel~

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  8. Daniel I agree mostly with your review of Tredan’s Bane however, only 4 stars because of the cover? As far as the cover of the Novel goes I got the symbology/significance of it—please do not “judge a book by its cover” because this novel is well written by an Independent (Indie) Author and my guess is that Lita has a limited budget (as she stated in her reply and you agreed). However, I would suggest your followers should check out Lita’s Book Trailer at http://youtu.be/CJAuRLMhWrU

    As far as the dialog goes I had no trouble following it. This novel is a very thick read for this Author’s first publication and I am looking forward to Lita explaining more about the magic of Lanith’s world, with that said the Novel would have been way too long for an Indie author’s first publication to explain the magic in more detail. Maybe we can convince Lita to write a “technical” book about the magical world of Sye.

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