Trial by Fire
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781427251312 (1427251312)
Publish date: September 2nd 2014
Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners
Edition language: English
Series: The Worldwalker Trilogy (#1)
I first reviewed this book a year or so ago, and dismissed it as a badly-written load of shit with unlikeable characters and a generic plot. Now, here I am, re-reading it properly all the way to the end – and you know what? It’s not that bad. I might just be saying that because I just suffered throu...
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