[Jack]

They are very good, not the best I have ever read but way up their with my fav's as books go. As said I did sometimes get a bit annoyed at the main character Seoman very much so at the beginning of the book, but it really did pick up quite quickly and I love how he mixes old myth and makes it his own in a way similar to the vaulted Tolkien but with more skill with story telling and novel writing. I truly enjoyed the end, it was not overdone or expected so that it became clichéd as so many others are.
I'm truly looking forward to the second of Shadowmarch and Otherland was equally brilliant, he is a good writer to start reading.