PROTECTOR OF THE GROVE (The Bowl Of Souls book 7)

Protector Of The Grove by Trevor H. Cooley
Book 7 of The Bowl Of Souls series
Read by James Foster
Genre: epic fantasy
Format: ebook & audiobook

About Protector Of The Grove:

The Jharro Grove Saga: Part Two

Jhonate’s reprieve from her father has been cut short. She is forced to return home to Malaroo, bringing Justan along with her. The journey she has avoided for so long has become all the more difficult because someone wants Justan dead.

The rogue horse Esmine, a mythical beast of remarkable power, has been captured by a troupe of dwarf smugglers. They are taking her to the nation Alberri where a gnome scholar awaits with a vicious plan to sacrifice the beast and bind its powerful soul to make a weapon of mass destruction. Tarah Woodblade must gather a group of warriors and rescue Esmine before she is taken to Alberri.

Evil stirs. Darkness is building. But can anyone trust Xedrion, The Protector of the Grove?

Source: Info in the About Protector Of The Grove was taken from GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22818712-protector-of-the-grove on 06/03/2017.

Tarah Woodblade

My Thoughts:

So I said in my review of the previous books in this series that I would willingly ignore the many little faults... then they are in the middle of a raging battle and what do our protagonist do? Stand there, as if she has all the time in the world wondering whether to kill the unconscious enemy at her feet or not, while her friends are dying and being beaten up all around her. Annoying to say the least... WTF! It makes me wanna smack Tarah upside the head for being too stupid to live (TSTL)! Sometimes being an avid fan does not preclude blindness, even if done so willfully...

Now Fist is my favouritest character. And there is someone who is not TSTL, thank god! That shows us that the character development is really not that bad. It's just certain characters that is annoying. But do they have to be one of the protagonists??!

When I said that this series is like Robert Jordan's never-ending series, The Wheel Of Time, where the author died before the ending was ever written, it was not quite true. Sure, The Bowl Of Souls is likely to go on and on and on forever, but the author does end a story arc after about five books and begins another. So there is ending in sight. Aha! Kudos for endings!

Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 4.5
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 4
Pace = 4
Plot = 3.5
Narration = 5

Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 cherries


Books In The Bowl Of Souls Series:

The Author
	Since putting out his first book: Eye of the Moonrat in May of 2012, Trevor H. Cooley has sold over 200,000 copies of his books in ebook and audio formats. He was born in South Carolina and has lived all around the United states, including Utah, New Mexico, Michigan and Tennessee. His love of reading started in the second grade with Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain series. He couldn’t get enough and continued with David Eddings, Tolkein, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, and many others. Since then, all he wanted was to become a published writer. The characters and concepts that eventually became the Bowl of Souls series started in his teens. He wrote short stories, kept notebooks full of ideas, and generally dreamed about the world constantly. There were several attempts at starting a novel over the years. Not long after he was married, his wife told him to stop talking about the story and write it down. Many years and rewrites and submissions and rejection letters later, he finally put the books on Amazon. In August of 2013 he quit his day job and started writing full time.
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The Narrator
	James Foster was born in Björk’s house in Iceland and grew up on Easter Island, where his parents were giant stone heads. He has the ability to fire beams of tacos out of his hands and he can turn his legs into tigers. On Sundays, James enjoys reading Family Circus and traveling through time. His favorite color is greenish-transparent and his favorite movie is the one you just watched. James is in charge of uploading the staff bios to the website, and no one has checked over his work.
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FTC Disclosure:
This book was purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.