Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Rating: C+
This book actually took me two tries to get through; the first time I
sat down to read it I didn’t get to the second chapter before giving up. Now having actually read through the whole
thing (a number of years later), I’m not entirely sure if my first impression
was right or not. The world that Chima
creates is an interesting one, but I couldn’t help but feel as though she was
withholding information the entire time.
Granted, authors are always withholding information, but in The Warrior Heir it’s done in a way
that’s more annoying than intriguing.
The Warrior Heir follows
fifteen-year-old Jack Swift, who for much of his life appeared to be an
unremarkable boy. Then one day he
forgets to take his medicine and his life drastically changes; while at soccer
tryouts he unleashes a power that he never knew he had, then his aunt shows up
and takes him on a trip to retrieve some magic sword…. From there Jack learns
that he’s a part of an underground society of magical people, the
Weirland. He is a warrior, a pawn in the
battle between wizards, and is expected to compete in a fight to the death with
another warrior; the house to whom the warrior belongs to gets to have control
over all the Weirland.
In general, I enjoyed this story.
There were a lot of elements to it that I found to be really intriguing
and I did really get into the characters.
At the same time, I disliked the way that information was presented, and
the fact that so much of it was provided in a taunting manner. I like reading works set in vastly detailed
worlds, but in The Warrior Heir I
couldn’t help but shake the feeling that Chima had half assed the creation of a
detailed world. A lot of terminology is
thrown at the readers, and it’s stated that there’s a lot of history behind the
Wierland, but I found that the attempts to develop it just left me
confused. This is just another one of
those books that left me wanting more from it instead of more of it.
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