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Just discovered your book (thanks to this thread) and finished reading it today. Loved every moment of it. It was refreshing to find a fantasy book that wasn't a thousand page brick devoted simply to world-building. The Kinshield Legacy seems much more character driven. It drew me into the tale at a gallop, letting me focus on the cast and their actions / motivations, rather than pages and pages of filler.
Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed my share of so-called "epic fantasy", but I really don't need to know exactly what material every rooftop is made out of, in every village that a character passes through. Nor do I always need to be told the color of the horse everyone is riding on, or what material shoe a lady has on, or the type of brocade stitching is on a cloak.
I'm glad to say I didn't get that description-overload sensation while reading this. It had just enough detail to let my mind fill in the rest without me feeling there was a lack, and the pace of the story was so quick -- it felt like everyone happened in a week -- that stopping to read about the color of shrubs would have felt just plain odd.
This is also the type of book that -- having reached the end -- I would have instantly bought the next installment and kept on reading, and that is perhaps the best compliment I can ever give an author about the book they've written.
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