2008-08-10 Flawed Hero.

I must confess I was looking forward to this book, perhaps a bit too much. It seemed an interesting premise of magic users working as pairs (Shield and Source) to act as a type of preternatural disaster fighting duo. And to be fair, it is competently written and does deliver on plot in a faux-Victorian setting, if rather plodding at times with some moments of light humour thrown about. What I found lacking was the rather cardboard characters. The heroine's special skill seems to be glibly ignoring all sense of personal danger whilst the eponymous hero, seems to be drawn directly from 2-D misunderstood types R'us. As there is a sequel to this, perhaps the characterisation might be improved upon by the author.