The Blind Archer

Overall not a bad book. The basic plot is relatively routine. Young nobleman, conflict with father, off on adventure, save the world from evil. It reminds me of the books by Elizabeth Boyer. The characters are fairly well defined and the system of magic is pretty well set up. There does seem to be a preoccupation with having no faces but it feeds into the storyline well.The book suffers from it's length. There's simply too many things shoved into a 232 page book. As a longer book or even a short series it would have allowed Betancourt to flesh out the world, the characters and the conflict between the gods and the demons. As it is you finish it and kind of ask yourself " is that it?". He sets up an interesting pantheon of gods but never gets around to giving any information about them except for the one involved in the plot, the Blind Archer. The hints he gave about the others made me curious to find out more about them.All in all a good bit of light fantasy reading. The author bio in the back stated that Betancourt was planning on more books set in the same world. Apparently he never got around to writing any. Given more time to fill out the details of the world it might have proved interesting to read.