Books like The Young Merlin Trilogy

This book was so bland. As I read it I got the impression the author had no idea what she was doing. Her struggles to be deep about the meaning of names lacked in meaning and significance, even though it seemed like she wanted it to be a big part of the books. I'm not a huge fan of fantasy, which I would consider this book to be. Or trying to be anyway. The little splurges of it came off just as the names did. It was supposed to be exciting finding out he had powers, but they didn't seem like powers at all. The jumping of this book was to quick that you didn't get to learn about the character who almost seemed invisible. He had no personality, the only thing defined about him was magic. She also hurt herself by making it three stories. If I had only gotten the first book I would have taken nothing away from it. So little happens I could have read that first book and not even felt like I read the book, more like I just read the preview on the back.