Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)

by Robert Holdstock

English language

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-0729-3

(10 reviews)

Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel by British writer Robert Holdstock, published in the United Kingdom in 1984. It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1985. It served as the first in a series of novels known as the Mythago Wood or Ryhope Wood cycle. It belongs to a type of fantasy literature known as mythic fiction. It has received critical acclaim for the quality of its prose, its forest setting, and its exploration of philosophical, spiritual and psychological themes.

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3 stars

Great premise but too carnal to be of much interest. Reminiscent of Anderson’s Broken Sword.

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4 stars

It gets better as you read along, which is the preferred trajectory for a book, in my opinion: too often it's the other way around. The opening is tough, with forty to fifty pages (or more) of the main character sitting around, reading his father's journals and ruminating on them with his brother, etc. The first-person narration also becomes less stilted when the action begins.