The Darkmoon by Julia Gray is the first book of five of The Guardian Cycle. It’s a fantasy. After a year of reading manuals, standards, legal documents and textbooks, I was hoping for an escape from reality by reading a fantasy. I was hoping for the effect that I had when I was reading Magician, The Belgariad and The Mallorean series. But nah, it did not come.
The story is decent. But there was hardly any part of the story that could maintain my anxiety, anticipation and excitement for long. The feelings were short-lived, inter-sparsed with more mundane parts such as Terrel’s dreams or the astrological descriptions of the Four Moons.
It’s probably unfair to compare the reading experience now to the ones I had with Raymond E. Feist’s Magician and David Eddings’s The Mallorean and The Belgariad which I read years ago. This time, I have stronger resistance to suspension of disbelief, which is sad. I wonder if I could enjoy fantasy anymore.
Should I read the part two? Maybe. I will sneak-read a chapter or two in the bookstore before deciding to buy or not.
Any fantasy fanatics can suggest a good series?
