 What oh a green writer. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long Green writer is pretty good Yeah, that's a that's the main thing I can say about it like it's not a very original story like in a lot of ways It's a pretty standard fantasy, but it's done. Well, you know, I had fun reading it I didn't hate any parts of it. I enjoyed all the characters and everything It's just an enjoyable book. The plot follows a girl named Kerrigan and so Kerrigan was Well, she wasn't exactly thrown out of her college, but she ran away from her college for various reasons and While she's on the road. She comes across this green rider who is a member of the king's messenger service That's what the green riders are and he has two arrows in him and he's dying And he says I need to get this message to the capital Please and then she decides you know what this must be important. So she takes the message and takes it to the capital and The problem is that people are after her now because she has it and they don't want the information getting out and Also, there's an ancient evil that's awakening because you know, it's a pretty standard fantasy. So Yeah, you can already tell most everything that's gonna happen in this book from the beginning like the first half is mostly just Kerrigan On the road trying to deliver the message with a couple of brief asides to other characters doing other things And then the second half is what happens after she delivers it and the bad guys are trying to take over and all that stuff So there's really nothing here plot-wise. That's unique or different It's a traditional fantasy story at least so far because it is first book in a series and they're it might change in The future. I don't know I can't say because I haven't read those yet, but you know It's standard fantasy story and just for clarification I did read this book once before but it was when I was probably 13 or 14 So I had forgotten a lot of it, but even sort of knowing what was going to happen Well, I don't think that really affected my enjoyment in any way and that's standard nature Kind of applies to the characters as well Kerrigan is Not bad, but there's really not all that much to her like she's just kind of a Teenage girl who wants to help she's fairly patriotic and she wants to Do something good with her life and she's a you know a decent person she wants to help others But that's that's about it and I guess that this could have gone the route of like the world would have It would be set up to be misogynistic So women wouldn't really have that much of a role and she would have to deal with some of that shit and they'd be Oh women can't be a green rider or something like that But it just kind of ignores that like you know women are in positions of power and stuff all over the place So it's just kind of more that oh, she's a young girl and she's trying to do this which is you know That's fine and she is when she gets into trouble she Kind of gets saved by other people But she also kind of saves herself and I know that sounds a little weird, but basically every time she runs into trouble she Can kind of get her way get her own way most of the way out of it But then something else has to happen or someone else has to help her or she has to get lucky or something like that and That did get a little annoying But at the very beginning in the very end there are Two sequences where she is totally on her own and she totally gets stuff done on her own So not a not a big deal. She's not a useless character or anything and she's you know, she's fine You know, I've been going on a little longer than I initially wanted to but she's a fine character and Maybe she'll get better as the series progresses, but I enjoyed spending the majority of this book with her The villains are a Little bit better. I think because for the most part, they're just you know, they're just evil You know that they want power. They want money. They want land. They want glory whatever Like and the good guys are just there to stop them because in their pursuit of power and glory. They're getting people killed That's fine, you know, and then there's the ancient evil which is just ancient evil Wants to take over, you know, it's again, it's fine. It's not a big deal But this book seems to have no illusions about them being deeper complex characters. It doesn't really treat them that way It's just like yeah, these guys are evil and it just has a little bit of fun with it And they're over the top evil for the most part. There's one or two bits where they are But you know for the most part it is just kind of yeah, they're power hungry assholes And it also makes sense why they would be that way like one of the main villains is this guy named Lord Mirwell And the thing is this world is not really a standard medieval fantasy world in fact so far it's the most original part of the book because It's basically it used to be a standard medieval fantasy world But it's kind of progressing into a more modern age Like it's mentioned that the printing press has been invented and so literacy is on the rise and education is on the rise And it's also mentioned that politically feudalism has kind of given way to an absolute monarchy And so the local lords just don't have much power anymore and also economically feudalism has given way to sort of proto capitalism or I can just say capitalism I guess and so the merchant class is starting to get More power than the old aristocratic class So you can see why Lord Mirwell and other people like him would be Frustrated with their loss of prestige because it's only really been one or two generations since this has happened And you can see why they'd be frustrated and you can like again They're not good people and they're not complex and their motivations aren't complex or anything But you can at least see where they're coming from a little bit You can see why they would be acting this way and that I kind of liked that the main part of the world that is not very original and Like I know this is traditional fantasy story But it did still work me a little bit just because I'm tired of seeing this. It's that magic used to be super powerful and super strong and Super well understood by people, but over the centuries and millennia It's just the knowledge has been lost and so modern people don't know how to do much with magic and it's just this mysterious thing to them and Like that's not a bad thing. It's just I've seen it done so many times in so many different fantasy series like Wouldn't it be neat if magic was like technology and actually progressed so Modern people had a better understanding of magic than old people than the not old people other than their ancestors Wouldn't that be kind of neat like I've seen that done before as well. Don't get me wrong, but still like Just come on that that is one cliche that just bothered me But speaking of magic, I did think that was handled pretty well in this like Kerrigan gets a brooch from the dead green rider And apparently the brooch is our magic and they choose their rider and hers allows her to turn Kind of invisible, but not quite. It's more like translucent So, you know if she's in a foggy area or in the dark or something Then she's basically invisible But if she's just out in the daylight then you can see her just fine And it also sucks away a lot of energy while she uses it So I did like that power and I'm not really spoiling anything she finds it out pretty early on but you know, I liked that power You know, it's limited but still pretty useful and I can see why she would be able to use it Well, there are some other green rider powers which feel a little Well, they feel a little plot now I see But it's nothing that's too egregious At the end of the day this book doesn't have any major issues at least none from me none that bothered me that much But there are a couple of minor ones which dragged it down like for example, I mentioned The bit about magic was kind of annoying. I mentioned that Kerrigan's character Isn't all that great, but that's not really bad so much as it is missed potential The only thing that bothered me that was a major issue or not not even major But the only thing that really dragged down my enjoyment was the action scenes in this are honestly pretty bad like they get described in two maybe three sentences most of the time and that's just kind of over and It's when something like that happens. It's harder for me to Envision what's going on in my head and sometimes I'll just be like, oh, it's over already. Um Okay, that was quick and so because of that the last like third or quarter of the book wound up being kind of difficult for me to get through just because that's when a lot of the action scenes take place and Well, they just aren't that good so it became at the in the end the climax was more of a Fizzle out of the story than it was ending with a bang But that said the climax and the ending it does end in such a way where It leaves itself open for a sequel But I don't think you would need to read the sequels in order to know what's going on because I've never read the sequels like I said I read the this first book like ten years ago and I've been a little curious about what happens next, but I haven't had this burning need to do it because it Wraps up the story more or less the pros gets clunky at times as well like outside of the action scenes and It just gets a little Exposition heavy like the narrator will explain things and it feels a little bit like they're just turning to the camera and explaining stuff to us but It's not too too awful like it doesn't go into an egregious amount of detail about the history of the world or anything And it's not like the characters talk like that to one another So it's really not it's not too big a deal. So that's it for the non-spoiler section I'm gonna have a quick spoiler section after this. So if you don't want to hear about that then green rider It's a good book I think if you're looking for some sort of traditional fantasy or if you're looking to just get into fantasy Like I think I mentioned this in my last video like if you're looking to just get into fantasy and dip your toe in The pool this is a good place to start it doesn't really do anything groundbreaking or anything all that original But it does traditional stuff very well and for that. I think it deserves credit so the only thing I want to talk about in the spoiler section is Jandara now Jandara is one of the bad guys lackeys. She is the She is basically a lieutenant for the old king that was deposed and wants to come back and take over again he's you know evil and She is not really evil. She is just following him because she's in love with him and Apparently she fell in love with him when he was younger and when he was the heir to the throne and when he was going to be king and Apparently he was a bit nicer back then, but he was also still You know a rapist and a crazy person and just just evil, you know He's just an evil dude, but she still fell in love with him and even now That they're older and she should know better and he's actually like hitting her and everything she is still in love with him and It just feels weird like I mean, I'm not saying that You can't be in an abusive relationship and still feel like you love somebody, but It just it just feels weird. It doesn't really feel like she actually loves him. It feels like oh Okay, I'm gonna let this guy hit me a bunch and smack me around and just generally be a dick to me And I'm gonna be okay with it and I'm also gonna help him out. It just I don't know. It could have been an interesting character study, but it just feels Half-done or not even half-done. It feels like it's a quarter done But that's everything like I said Green Rider pretty good book if you're looking to just read some traditional fantasy or get into the fantasy genre then check it out and I just wanted to thank everybody for watching thanks to all my patrons whose names are here But thanks especially to my $10 up patrons who are Oppo Savillain in brothers and toadies Christopher Hawkins Christopher Quinten Joseph Pendergraft and Tobacco Crow and No, no, no, that's all I didn't miss anything Okay, and if you want to get your name put on here or get early access to my videos or Any of a million other awesome things that you can get then consider giving me money and if you can't do that for whatever reason then just like the video and subscribe and all that and You