Return to Mercya by Mark Ruckledge Review

Returnto Mercya by Mark Ruckledge★★★☆☆Return to Mercy is a shortfantasy story that is only the first installment to a larger story. Brendel Domia escaped the destruction of Mercya and found safety in a placecalled Ayethene. Years later everyone from Mercya was summoned from theirvarious hiding places to go back. Brendel finds out before long that this is atrap to take out the rest of the people of Mercya and he might be the one ableto save the people and overrun the evil that now resides there.Mark Ruckledge contacted me and asked me to review his short story. Iaccepted and he sent me the e-book. This was a promising start to a larger story. It was very clear that thiswas just the beginning. I felt that at 22 (nook) pages it was hard to get agrasp on the story because, it was an all-new world for me. I personally wishthat the author would have continued the story and made a book with the wholestory instead of just the short story. I think I would have gotten a bettergrasp of the story that way.This book was like another world for me. I was learning new names andplaces that I haven’t read about before. I felt like I was just gettingcomfortable with the story when it ended. That is another reason it would bebeneficial for the author to write it as an entire book. With an original piecelike this, I like to have more then 22(nook) pages to get to know the story,characters and world. The author uses language well to create the scenes in the story that hewants you to see. He uses great details in places but in some places I felt thestory needed more. One instance that needed to be talked about more is Brendeland Jil’s relationship. I didn’t see very much of it and all of a sudden I wasbeing told certain things happened without seeing them in the story and becameconfused. I was thinking, “Umm…how did that happen?” I felt like I was lockedout from part of the story. I wanted and needed to see the details of therelationship because I think it was suppose to be important to Brendel, but itwasn’t clearly shown in the story. I think the author may not have touched onit much because it was a short story.I look forward to reading more of this series and finding out what happens.The story shows promise and I think I will like it more as a whole.