Magic of Wind and Mist: The Wizard's Promise; The Nobleman's Revenge

The book is still decent but after reading the first one, it was hard to get through this book.

I so wanted to love this, Hanna is such a great character and I loved the relationship between her and Isolfr and their friendship, but I felt that they were not deep enough. We found out about the details we had to, but not enough extras that made them come to life. Additionally, the plot was long winded for the first part of the book, so releasing this as a duology was a necessity in that respect. There were parts of the books where I felt it was a long tangent that was important for Hanna's character, but were confusing at the time reading it.Disclaimer: I was sent this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Frankly, it did not live up to the first adventure. Not enough depth, more an outline of happenings than a fleshed out story. A lot of times the plot felt formulaic ("everything is going well but THEN without any warning or explanation, something happens to throw a wrench in the plans..." type deal) and a little too easy. There was a lot of potential for the Mists to be expanded, being a new world to explore, but we are just expedited to the end with description and brief mentions, skipping over any real or meaty progression. Unfortunate.