Karigan actually spends the first half of this book on her own, with no one following her more than a few chapters. The story being wrought here is fascinating, with ties reaching back a thousand years, all brought together in the “present” around our main character, Karigan, and those that she meets. They are my favourite story to read, and Green Rider has continued in that vein. I admit a certain bias whenever I read a story that centres around a female of late-teenage/early-twenty years, who is not incompetent or perpetually scared. Linkages throughout history are portrayed through characters surnames, and a rich depth is exuded when you read of characters with names like Karigan G'ladheon and F'Ryan Cobblebay, mixes of the traditional with atypical naming structures that really add further polish to an already captivating story. There are still times when her writing reverts to a sort of Rowling-ish childishness, with uninspired word and phrase choices and story turns, but on the whole Britain writes very well.īritain knows her languages, I think, because she uses them to great extent throughout this book, and well into the second (which I am nearly finished).

That soon changed though, as I actively saw Kristen Britain's writing grow as the story went on, and by the time I was a quarter of the way through her writing had filled out and become something much more mature and intelligent. That being said, I was left feeling a little as if the diligence put into the creation of the world and the languages was a little pretentious in light of the apparent juvenility of the writing. My girlfriend decided to send me into this book with some preconceptions of her own, but I've never been duly affected by others opinions. Sometimes though, it totally works for you, as happened for me when I saw the cover to Kristen Britain's 'Green Rider.' You're taught very early on that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Green rider series in order