I would like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for providing me the ARC of this amazing first book of the series. Review is based on my honest opinion after reading the book. The book is not intimidating in terms of number of pages. It is easy to read and the storyline is very easy to follow whether it's the first person or third person doing the narrative. There are some areas of concerns like lack of description as to how two characters known each other. Some other times a scene will be cut short and moves to another scene and it feels like it needs more narrative to justify each characters journey. All in all, I really enjoyed the characters and how the role of each character rolled out throughout their journey. Magic system is not that bad. I hope that on the next series, there will be more magic involve. World building is good, not too many places and landmarks that you need to write down to remember after you finish halfway of the book. The approach to villain turned good guy is quicker in transition rather than most fantasy villain I've read that it's so hard for the villain to be good halfway through the story, or sometimes the villain stays being a villain (SPOILER- I'm talking about the Lieutenant). Overall, this is an easy and very comforting read for me. I hope that you guys should pick this book and try because I did enjoyed the adventures of the characters and I can't wait for the next books in the series.

Siddoway has written an interesting book. I enjoyed the plot and the pace of the book. Looking forward to sequel.

I really struggled with this book. When I read the description the story seemed interesting, but although I wanted to see how the story concluded, the book didn't grab my attention enough to read it carefully. First, it is hard for me when the names of the characters are so fantastical that I struggle to pronounce them in my mind. There are a lot of fantasy names and beasts in this book, and they weren't introduced in a way that drew me in. I felt thrown into this fantasy world, rather than gently introduced.

The three main characters seemed rather wooden. In the end, I didn't care a lot about any of them (maybe it was because I couldn't pronounce their names).

Despite my negative comments, I did want to know if they got the scepter of destiny (and why Tsalix is so important), but the book didn't get there. I would have to read the subsequent books to answer those questions, and I am not sure that I have it in me.

Thanks Netgalley and publishers for the free e-arc. I wish I liked this book more, but I don't.

I enjoyed this book, it was well paced, and the plot was good, I expected something else but anyways I loved it. But something in the plot really pissed me off but I understand it was something personal so I'm not gonna go for it
Thanks Netgalley for this ARC.

I wish to thank the publisher for providing an eARC of Tsakix Silverthorn and the Scepter of Destiny.
I must say going into this book I had high hopes and I was not disappointed! An adventure story of three friends sent on a quest by the king, two princes at war for the throne, and a redeemed warrior: What more could you ask for?

The ruthless Prince Abadon disagrees with his father’s rule. He has made it his mission to fight against not only his father but his own twin brother, Prince Johana. For 50 years the Obsidian Wars have brought death and destruction to the kingdom but King Elosha has a plan.

The Solider, Tsalix, The Famer, Asur, and The Lumberjack, Kwercus are three young men summoned for an audience with King Elosha. Neither know what for but they must honor the command and set out on separate journeys to do so. Along the way each of them face numerous trials, tribulations, and certain death but ultimately they make it to the king. The King then tasks them to find the three talismans that will allow the Scepter of Destiny to be freed from its crystal prison. The Scepter of Destiny will aid in destroying the evil forces of Prince Abadon and freeing the kingdom from his plight. Armed with four vials of elemental force, what they can carry, and blessings of the king the three set off to find the first talisman.
Unfortunately, it is atop the very mountain that Prince Abadon calls home.

Along this first leg of their long journey they meet Cha Legai, a lieutenant in Prince Abadon’s army. After being left for dead by his captain and healed by the very people he has been told are cruel and monstrous he starts to question where his loyalties lie and why he has so blindly followed Prince Abadon’s rule. Joining up with the adventurers he starts to see he might be on the wrong side of the war he has fought so hard in.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to the continuation of the journey. The world building in this book is imaginative and while everything was given a name as well as a vague description of the area it wasn’t hard to follow. I have found that when authors give names to every town, mountain, and desert it can make the world a bit hard to follow and can take away from the actual story. Here it wasn’t too overwhelming. In all honesty the descriptions were enough that you could probably draw a crude map of the kingdom.

The characters are well thought out and given decent personalities. While they are a bit flat at times (honestly who isn’t) they have enough development for me to want to learn more about them. They are complex enough that they are individual people but boring enough that they don’t argue amongst themselves.

The story telling switched from each boy’s perspective as told in third person when they are separated and once they are together it shifts to a third person’s view among all of them. The same goes for the villain’s perspective. We are being told the story versus being a part of the story. It is well done and not hard to follow. About the only complaint I have is the random bits of outside (meaning outside the adventurers) intrigue thrown in for dramatic effect. They seem oddly placed but I feel like they are going to be extremely important parts of the story down the road.

​Thanks to the publisher for providing an eARC of Tsalix Silverthorn and the Scepter of Destiny.

Though it features an interesting world, Tsalix Silverthorn felt almost indistinguishable from most other 'adventure' stories to me. Featuring quite a large core cast for such a short story, Tsalix Silverthorn takes a very distant approach to narration, not unlike that of an old fairytale. Normally it's a narrative style I really enjoy, but something about its use here just made it too difficult to connect to the story.

It's not a bad book by any means, it just wasn't the book for me.