Book read: Legends of Marithia Book 1: Prophecies Awakening by Peter Koevari

I read this a while ago, but forgot about this little thread.
Essentially the author is a guy from another forums I visit and he posted the first chapter online for people to read. I was entertained by it and it made me want the whole thing, so I grabbed the hardcover online and wasn't disappointed.

It's in the fantasy genre and certainly not the longest novel, but the story flows quite well and it never seems to get boring in parts like I've found in several books of late. It takes races from other fantasy works, but reworks them so they become a distinctly unique flavour of the race everyone knows and loves and most importantly it has themes of death, change, betrayel and the like, all in the right quantities and used at the right times.

It's certainly not genre defining but it's a ****ing good read.