Well, this was kind of clumsy, but I actually liked it? I’ll be honest, I’ve had such poor experiences with the last couple of Sword of Truth books, I expected more of the same here, and went looking for it. But this ended up being pretty harmless, and by the end, it actually had me engaged. Well, as engaged in this series as I have ever been, (which, by the way: engagement peaked in book one). So: haven’t enjoyed anything in this series this much […]
The story creep is here.
Twenty-one days to read this. This effer. That’s not a great sign. I will admit to being vastly distracted by real life happenings right now, but if a book is good, I will make time to read it, and I never did for this. The opposite, in fact. I had to make myself sit down and work on this, and until about the last 250 pages, it did feel like work. And I’m not just talking about the by now normal Robert Jordan writing quirks […]
A fantasy classic where the hero refers to monsters as “those guys”
Contains Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos I’ve given myself ample time to sit on this book (or collection of books?) and mull it over. Zelazny is one of the fantasy greats and this, my first exposure to him, is supposed to be a fine example of that greatness. I didn’t dislike The Chronicles of Amber, overall. There were parts of it I liked a lot. But the reading experience was […]
“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
In a short time I’ve really become quite devoted to this series. As I’ve said in my earlier reviews of Kushiel’s Avatar‘s predecessors, these books encapsulate everything that I want in a fantasy series. Balanced on the shoulders of an incomparable heroine, the story is both epic and personal. With every installment, Carey takes the opportunity to expand the world building out into foreign countries that are recognizably rooted in real-life analogs. So far we’d seen Scotland, Scandanavia, Italy, and now this book gets into […]