by Tal Valante
This one was unsatisfying. Lots of potential in the plot but it just didn't deliver. Too much crammed into too few pages. The hero was recovering his memory and his flashbacks came thick and fast- they showed glimpses of what might have been an amazing fantasy story. The MC seemed intriguing - he'd ...
Fantasy provided the perfect setting for this tale about very real human foolishness and grieves. I had to blindly follow Teregryn in his quest, memories, confusions and fears, wondering where magic and madness laid : it was a blur progressively clarifying, a leaf slowly unfurling to finally delive...
A novel in short-story format that packs a punch and drags you into emotional twists and turns.A definite re-read for me!! Great work!!
The world/characterization/etc. is extremely fascinating. I was sad that it was so short...The only reason it's not a "future-reread" is that I feel like I'd depress myself rereading it because it's so short lol...
4 1/2 HeartsFirst published at MM Good Book Reviewshttp://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/all-my-crimes-by-tal-valante/Teregryn is compelled to save his king when a threat emerges that they had all thought was long gone. Even though his king seems to have forsaken him and even though he i...
So if I were evaluate this story as emotionless machine (yes, I know such reviewers do not exist), I would have given it five plus stars - for such shortish novella, it is extremely tightly written (as much as I can see as ESL reader anyway), it evokes very vivid imagery in reader's mind, it asks ha...
I really enjoyed this well done short story by new-to-me author Tal Valante. This is a complex fantasy; at its essence a cautionary tale about man's abuse of his natural world. A war has been waged between the Elven people and Humans over the salvation of their shared world. At the middle of this ...
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