Sorry if you liked this one...

Apparently a lot of people love the Green Rider. A few people really don't. Unfortunately I think I am with the smaller group. I'm only on page 87, and even the people who liked it have said that it doesn't "pick up" until page 100. One reviewer even said that it didn't get interesting until the 2nd half.

Anyway, this is how I'm feeling right now: Amazon Crit but I plan to make it through this book (as long as I don't have any other books to read momentarily). At least I found one other person as frustrated as I, and now I can feel a little better and try to keep reading.

My big gripe is that the premise (she has to deliver a message to the king) should be more of a side-note that leads into the "real" issue, which would be the actual story with conflict and other "epic" things such as these villains hinted at. Even Incarceron (which, by the way, is a really good book... minus maybe 80 pages or so that were "ok") which aims to be more of a few-and-true fantasy, ends up being epicer than the Green Rider without even trying.

Of course, I may come back and modify this if I can ever get through the rest of the book.

Maybe I'll go write some reviews on books that I enjoyed reading so I don't just seem entirely negative. I guess I was too busy enjoying them to worry about writing a review.

/begin rant (highlight if you really wanna see it)

I mean seriously, these awesome green riders, who are famous for being messengers??!! When push comes to shove, do we call in the green riders? No, what about Ghostbusters? I think we would have to call in either the local militia or He-man, since the green-riders specialize in running away, and getting the message to the king who, obviously, is going to fix all our problems. Or will just die anyway, because the villains are obviously really scary, and the green riders all ran off.

Plus giant eagles, plus cliched named villains, plus a less-cooler version of galadriel, plus a less-cooler version of Shelob. At least the horse is unique. Oh wait, guess not.

(I'm perfectly willing to eat my words later)