Half the World still reads more like a historical fiction novel than a fantasy - even with elf ruins thrown in for fun.

The simple truth is that Half the World is just the same old YA story we’ve all read before (in Half a King actually) with different main characters and more travelling. And so Thorn finds herself joining Yarvi’s mission to travel around half the world to find allies for the coming war with the High King.Īfter finishing Half the World, all I can say is that the second helping of grimwhine might have went down a bit better, but it wasn’t any more savory than the first. But no act of kindness from the deeply cunning minister is free. Only the intervention of Father Yarvi saves young Thorn. And that only gets worse when she inadvertently kills another young man. But her sex and her bad attitude has turned more than a few of her fellow warriors against her. One of this new generation is a young girl named Thorn, who is determined to become as great a warrior like her father: a man who dueled Grom-gil-Gorm himself.

Thankfully, however, new heroes have arisen to aid the minster in his task of protecting Gettland. But no matter his famed deviousness, Yarvi has not been able to avert the coming confrontation with the High King. Now, Father Yarvi is well established as the “deeply cunning” minister of his former uncle, King Uthil of Gettland, and his former mother, Queen Laithlin. The sands of time have rapidly slipped through the hourglass since Half a King.

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