Palicrovol
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789029044189 (9029044187)
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: J.M. Meulenhoff
Pages no: 319
Edition language: Dutch
I am a fan of Card's Ender series, but I couldn't warm to this book, an early effort and his first try at fantasy. It's just too gruesome. It has a fairy tale feel in its rather distant, stilted omniscient point of view, written more as a series of vignettes then a sustained narrative. When we think...
I feel very mixed about this book.I liked some of the magic and a lot of the religious aspects of the book (the religions/worship that were present in the book, not that the book is preachy), but overall, a lot of the book felt a little over the top. This is a very early foray for Card into fantas...
I have read this one several times. Every time I get something a little different out of it.
If this book hadn't been so short I don't think I could have finished it, there were so many revolting scenes of cruelty, child molestation and perversion.
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