The Darkness That Comes Before
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003PPDBUS
Publish date: May 6th 2010
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Series: The Prince of Nothing (#1)
Good debut novel by this author, following various individuals and factions as they set off for a remote corner of the world for their own ends.Each chapter is told from the point of view of just one or two characters, which helps introduce people and places slowly, and doesn't overwhelm you all at ...
Good debut novel by this author, following various individuals and factions as they set off for a remote corner of the world for their own ends.Each chapter is told from the point of view of just one or two characters, which helps introduce people and places slowly, and doesn't overwhelm you all at ...
Bakker should have called this book "Bad Things Happening To Bad People". Okay, so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously, one of the weaknesses of this book was the fact that many(if not all) of the main characters are fairly hard to sympathize with. Achamian's all right, but somewhat of a...
I got as far as page 156 and I just don't care anymore. I'm quitting, maybe some day I'll return to it but I doubt it.
2/13 - I'm currently on page 216 and it doesn't seem to be "getting better" yet. It's not the verbosity that's bothering me, it's the utter lack of characterization, combined with the lack of visuals. I feel like I can neither 'see' nor 'know' any of these characters. They're simply ciphers moving a...
11 years ago
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