I have started Orphan's Quest, the first of Terry Ironwood's The Great Forget Series

At the author's request I have started Orphan's Quest, the first of Terry Ironwood's The Great Forget Series.

An orphan with untold power. A wise wizard. A princess who is thankfully far brighter than her idiot brother and father, and an ancient evil rising. Sounds like a classic Epic Fantasy in the Tolkien tradition, which, by the way, is exactly what Ironwood says it is (both in the intro to the book and to me personally), which makes it hard to resist. Yet I foresee more than a few surprises since the back cover begins with "Long ago, a mysterious event known as The Great Forget ravaged Earth. Magic was born." The Great Forget. Now if that does not invite mysteries and revelations by the dozen I do not know what does.

(Naturally the Official Book Review will come after I finish the book.)