Book 1 of Legends of Windemere

I have to begin this review by saying that I haven’t read much self-published stuff (too many books in my book pile as it is!), but when the lovely Ionia at “Readful Things” reblogged a fantasy book giveaway hours after she was the first person to “follow” my blog, I thought that it was simply serendipitous that I read it.

Beginning of a Hero, the debut novel of author Charles Yallowitz, follows the story of Luke Callindor, a young warrior half-elf with a famous name, desperate to prove his merits on his own terms. He becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate the heir to the Kingdom, not only needing to locate the heir but also the assassin. His journey brings him face to face with poisonous snakes, cyclopes, spadixes, a very nasty Hellfire elf, and the evil Lich who controls it.

If you…