God Stalk
by:
P.C. Hodgell (author)
ISBN:
9780940841444 (0940841444)
Edition language: English
Series: Kencyrath (#1)
This gets 2.5 stars for “it was okay.” There are aspects of the book that I appreciate, but my reading experience was a slow one; when I take more than 3 weeks to read a 265-page fantasy novel, it hasn’t fully engaged me. God Stalk was first published in 1982, and has evidently become a cult class...
An interesting read and very different fantasy. Partially a coming of age novel, partially an adventure story, it looks like I have the trilogy in one novel somewhere so I'm looking forward to reading the rest.
4/5; 4 stars; A-This was a fantasy story with a female protagonist. There were some pretty dark moments but no so much that it overshadowed the sense of adventure evoked by the story. I enjoyed the different characters, the presence of magic, the strange culture of the city, and all the gods. The...
3.5 stars
My first book by this author, who's described as a "cult favorite." Never heard of her before, but I thought this was a quite entertaining fantasy in the classic vein (think Thieves' World) but with a vein of darker elements running through it... (maybe a little Storm Constantine, Tanith Lee, Meredi...
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