Solomon’s Exile : An Epic Adventure Begins
This book is starting off this blog for one simple, magical reason: it reignited a love of reading that I thought I had lost to academia. This was a book that begged to be finished, with a storyline that always left me needing to know what was going to happen next. 10/10 would recommend, it is for sale on amazon along with Maxstandt’s other works.
In Maxstandt’s epic fantasy, there is this continual feeling of foreboding that makes it difficult to put down. This is a book with the gumption to have an outlook that looks bleak. As soon as one thing seems to go right for our characters, everything else goes so horribly wrong. Solomon’s Exile features fantastic world building and the barest illusions of romance sprinkled throughout a nail-biting quest to save two worlds. This is, in my opinion, one of those fantasy books that has the potential to become a timeless classic known for sparking a love of literature.
When title character, Solomon, is banished to Earth from his home in the Greenweald without his memories, an evil that has been long believed to exist only in children’s stories, follows him there. While rebuilding his stolen memories, Solomon searches for a way to save his newfound human friends. Throughout the story it is revealed that this same ancient evil is threatening the Greenweald and those that banished Solomon are desperately searching for a way to bring Him back. Throughout the story friends are found among foes and foes are found among friends as the search for a way to save the Greenweald rages.
Maxstandt’s story ends in a way that could allow a reader to stop with just book one of the series. However, for those, like me, who need answers to every question the story is continued in Book 2: Solomon’s Journey, and Book 3: Solomon’s Odyssey.