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...
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...
Well, apparently I got over my sci-fi kick and finished this after all. It's a big sprawling book, and as some of the other reviewers mention it has some fairly unlikeable central characters, but I found that part of it's charm. I also suspect the ones that others found sympathetic, are the ones I...
For re-read project.It's badass overall. Has its weak moments such as the sustained uncritical use of the term soul as well as some rhetorical defaults, such as redundancy, over-explanation, and other items that are somewhat insulting to the audience. Those moments do not cancel the edifice of thi...
This book is essentially a reimagining of what the Crusades might have looked like in a fantasy world with magic. The world design does a good job of accomplishing that goal. The characters are gritty and realistic so the style is more akin to Martin and Erikson than Tolkien. However, there are v...
I never finished this book, actually I never finished the first chapter. I couldn't read this book it was like the author grabbed a thesaurus and picked out vocabulary that would have even made Jerome Shostak have to look it up!It made me hate the author...it felt arrogant, high handed and pissed me...
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