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18 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Keep this on the Free list Jan 21, 2011
By L. Kellogg
Are the first three reviewers friends of the author? I'm glad this was free for my Kindle because I didn't try to finish it and didn't keep it long. Stiff, unfleshed out characters (and clueless--why hadn't the main kid character never once heard of the mean fox-things, when his friends had? Had no one in his small village ever talked to this kid before?), stiffer, wooden dialogue. Definite overuse of all thesaurus words possible for one simple action, and used without regard for context. 2D characters quip when they're not saying anything funny and saunter when the situation implies that they're meant to be hurrying. The robotic dialogue was funnier when I turned the Speech thing on. Contractions were rare enough to be startling, so either use them or do not! Typos and homonym misspellings put me off too. Custom's hut and custom's inspectors, really? Maybe the author had to be his own editor because no professional could get through it. What a painful ugh of a read.
Edited to add: this was for the Kindle, not the paperback, if the Speech thing wasn't enough of a clue. Though it would be kind of cool if paperbacks had a Speech thing. But I guess that's part of the charm of the Kindle! :-)
19 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Start with this book May 06, 2008
By D. Hill
"online shopper"
I've read many of Tuttle's fantasy novels and this is my fave so far. If you are trying to figure which one to purchase first, get this one. It will awaken you to a whole new world ... Tuttle's world ... He will keep you on the edge of your seat while he intrigues you with mystery and a fantasy like you've never dreamed before!
Once read, you will never forget this book.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Another Fun Fantasy Quest Mar 24, 2011
By Marie Rice
"Part Of The Whole"
Origin Scroll by Richard S Tuttle was another fun fantasy quest story and the beginning of the Targa Trilogy. I managed to snag this one during the short time that it was free on Amazon, and just couldn't stop myself from buying the next two after reading it. Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Mages, Unicorns, Trolls, and other fantasy creatures abound. This engrossing trilogy is actually the first part of the larger Alcea Collection. The 7-part Swords Of Heaven series and the 7-part Demonstone Chronicles round out the full collection.
12 of 18 found the following review helpful:
a freeby that is not worth the money I paid for it Jan 21, 2011
By Marc
I don't like this book. Its crap. I do not recommend anyone bother reading it. For a free book, it was a waste of money downloading it. The story follows the lives of a few main characters through a series of misadventures, in a typical but abbreviated Tolkien fantasy story line complete with goblins and underground mazes. The story line is far too broken and disjointed to allow for easy reading, and none of the characters is at all believable. They all lack that human element that makes a good writer great. The highlights of each of the main character's journeys occurs with miraculous ill considered brevity. The origin scroll, from which the title is taken, is the subject of perhaps 6 paraghraphs in the entire book and almost used as an oversight. It is as though the auther thinks, "oh i named it after the origin scroll so I better insert it in the text occassionally. The whole story has potential to be a good story, if it were developed and written well, but unfortunately it was not. The result is trite, overly brief and far too contrived to make for good reading. For some reason, whether it be ennui or sheer stupidity, or some irrational thought that the story may eventually become interesting, I persisted reading until the end to discover this is the first of 3 books. Rest assured I will not be reading anything else from this author.
10 of 15 found the following review helpful:
AMAZING READ!!! Jan 20, 2009
By J. Kittrell
This book has an amazing story and you can feel the characters throughout the book. It is very well written, you never know what will happen next as you read this book. This book is great for ANY fantasy reader!
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