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.

​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.