Stephen Deas' debut fantasy book, The Adamantine Palace, was a good and enjoyable book. I enjoyed reading this book, because the plot was interesting and complex enough to keep me interested in it. The story moved fast forward, which was nice.
Although I liked this book, it wasn't a perfect book because it had some flaws. The worst flaw was that there was no map of the world in the hardcover edition (epic fantasy books should always contain a map of the world). I also found the characters to be a bit one-dimensional.
The chapters of this book were quite short, but that didn't bother me much, because the writer concentrated on the story and didn't fill the pages with descriptions of scenery etc (to be honest, I would've liked to see a bit more descriptions in this book). In my opinion this kind of fantasy is quite easy to read.
I can recommend this book to readers of epic fantasy, because it's an enjoyable book. I'm sure that readers, who like fast moving stories, will like this book.