Interesting concept, but I can't say I enjoyed it overall. I didn't care for the main character, or any of the characters much. Doyle honestly felt like one of those author self-i serts. He's an authority on old poets like Coleridge, Wordworth and the like and somehow, inexplicably, this academic becomes some kind of heroic man of action, outwitting and overpowering men who've much more fighting proweas and tendencies to violence then he does. Eh, not buying it. I did appreciate Doyle's tenaciaty, but as a person I couldn't really care for him. We don't get a lot of indication at who Doyle really is, especially with what happens to him later that calls into question his actual identity. The way magic works is intersting, but everything else seemed underdeveloped, like the time travel aspect and its reprecussions.
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The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance
Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. …
wolfinthewoods rated The Anubis gates: 3 stars
The Anubis gates by Tim Powers
An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a …
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An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a …
Interesting concept, but I can't say I enjoyed it overall. I didn't care for the main character, or any of the characters much. Doyle honestly felt like one of those author self-i serts. He's an authority on old poets like Coleridge, Wordworth and the like and somehow, inexplicably, this academic becomes some kind of heroic man of action, outwitting and overpowering men who've much more fighting proweas and tendencies to violence then he does. Eh, not buying it. I did appreciate Doyle's tenaciaty, but as a person I couldn't really care for him. We don't get a lot of indication at who Doyle really is, especially with what happens to him later that calls into question his actual identity. The way magic works is intersting, but everything else seemed underdeveloped, like the time travel aspect and its reprecussions.
wolfinthewoods started reading The Anubis gates by Tim Powers
The Anubis gates by Tim Powers
An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a …
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wolfinthewoods rated Audition For the Fox: 4 stars
Audition For the Fox by Martin Cahill
Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly …
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Audition For the Fox by Martin Cahill
Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly …