I usually really like Eden Winters, but Galen and the Forest Lord didn't work for me. It felt like it was trying too hard to be funny. As one example, we were told a few times Galen only ever learned to count to twelve, and then there's this: "...from everywhere, people came, more than he could count (again with that unfortunate limitation)." People who find that funny will probably love this book, but it just made me groan.I also had trouble warming up to Erik as a hero, as we're pretty consistently shown and told what a bumbling idiot he is. And then we're told he's awesome, despite no evidence to support that. At one point, one of the characters comments, "Even Erik couldn't bungle this." and then moments later thinks, "...thick-headedness aside, Erik's leadership position came from more than an accident of birth. No more masterful or exemplary leader existed." In context, I don't read that as saying Erik's great, but rather that everyone else is even worse.I also never really saw what drew Galen and Erik to each other, aside from both being young, attractive, into men, and there. "Young, dumb, and full of cum" was coined in reference to men like these, I believe. I don't think I'd have finished it if it weren't for the Bingo Challenge. 2.5 stars