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Review of "Roger Zelazny's Amber" on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

"Then behold your nemesis!"

You can't fault the books for being brief. Tolkien spent as many pages as this book is long before the Hobbits left The Shire. Details about stitching, taste of food, terrain may seem tedious at the time but when they are absent from the story you miss them. Zelazny does away with unnecessary details and just gives you the story, but it comes across as being rushed or a draft of a larger story.

I enjoyed Book of Amber #1 and #2, but I think I'll stop the story here. I find the books are too simple for what is a complicated story. I like time spent world building or describing animals in detail. With this you are given a striped horse with feathers and that's it.

These details are omitted from the story probably because they don't help the plot at all, and I can respect that, but a part of why I like fantasy is having a new world described to me true and through, and I'm not getting that here so I'll move on to another tale.