Reviews for Broken Seal
RKF22 chapter 2 . 4/9/2015
Awesome story loved the game can't wait for more
Martin III chapter 2 . 12/11/2014
The prose here is pretty good, but there are a lot of problems with the plot and content. In order of appearance:

Renaming Bowie adds nothing to the story and makes it harder for fans to identify with the character. Renaming him "K'taan T'kallys" is particularly problematic because it has no obvious pronunciation, and because it doesn't fit with the other names in the milieu, just as if Tolkein had named one of his elves "Fred Jones".

Given that K'taan and his mother seem very close, it doesn't make sense that he refers to her as "Orielle".

18 years old is a rather high estimate for Bowie/K'taan's age, especially since he's still in school.

Throughout the chapter, the characters change moods far too drastically. One minute they're laughing their heads off at the least thing, the next they're all doom-and-gloom about the storm, the minute after that they're seeped with heavy emotionalism, and then they're all laugh-happy again. It makes everything they say sound insincere.

I don't think that any teenager, in any era, of any reality, would ever address someone as "old friend".

And to put it briefly, the exchange between K'taan and Jett at the end sounds like a fantasy of K'taan's rather than something that might actually happen. In fact, it reminded me of the scene on The Wonder Years where Kevin Arnold fantasizes about beating up his older sister's boyfriend.
Martin III chapter 1 . 10/6/2014
This seems to be a pretty standard novelization, with only the king and minister's friendship and Slade's apparent mental instability to distinguish it from the rest of the pack. The prose is not bad but between Slade's bizarre aggressiveness and oddities like the king carrying a dagger around inside his own castle, it's a little hard to take seriously. A good effort but novelizations rarely make good fiction.