Roary O'Rourke

In this four book set Roary O’Rourke, a brave boy from the town of Elfdom is the most dominant, he changes from being a peasant to a hero to a prince and all the way back to a hero. How is Roary O’Rourke a hero twice? He saves Lacy Lovelyful, the princess of Elfdom and by the second book the queen of Elfdom from the horrid king of Dark Clouds Peak, Baron Bramble twice. Then let’s not forget the true meant-to-be king of Dark Clouds Peak, Lord Dooley Do and his dragon Bleethmoth, who doesn’t even come into the story until the second book. Lord Dooley Do and queen Lacey Lovelyful’s valet, Chauncy who Dooley Do marries. Most of these four books is fighting and traveling.

This reviewer thought the books were great until she, sadly got to the middle of the second book. That was the point where the books just got horrible and sort of boring. This reader didn’t like these books very much. This reviewer feels this way because of how much they described, which is fine in most other books but it didn’t work in these books. The other way, this reader got the rating of two hearts is by rating each book and averaging out the ratings. This reviewer will probably try to stay away from this author’s books from now on. One of the reasons this book didn’t get any lower of a rating is because the plotline did at least work to some extent. Even with the books being of the fantasy genre, the book was still a little far fetched. This reader had an extremely hard time being captivated by the book and the interplay between the main couples was pretty much completely non-existent. There was also confusion many times because of all the characters having names that were close too one another. The dialogue was also a problem because of it mostly being things like “Here we are on this trail headed home. The grass is green, the sky is blue. Oh no there’s a thing flying at us, better get our amulets.” It was just completely repetitive and un-developed. This reviewer would like to let the author know that she should keep trying and maybe aim her books more at “children” instead of Young adult.

June 2007