Recently Patrick W. Carr, a popular Christian fantasy author, offered the first book in his trilogy, The Staff and The Sword, for free. Because I'm the mother of a kid who can easily read books far above her age range, I preview books for her. Not as many as she would like, since she can devour books in no time flat, but still I try to be careful about what she reads.
So when a Cast of Stones began with the main character of the book, a teenage boy, Errol, lying sodden on the floor of the tavern, I was not too enthused.
