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I recently read Children of Húrin. A challenging read. Last year I read @Olde_Heuvelt's HEX, that was a difficult read. This, is a painful read, a page-turning fight with every word. You feel every rock & slip on that mountain. WOW. TOH is Stephen King for this generation. ❤️&💔
Edinburgh, 1779. An academic rivalry turns deadly.
George Stephens is a lousy medical student. Lacking the social and financial resources …
Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria …
Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria …
Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial …
After winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her …
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en el sur. Y morir también. …
Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful occult weapon known …
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.
In the slums of the sea-battered city a young …
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.
In the slums of the sea-battered city a young …
Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful occult weapon known …
Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create …
This book feels longer - there is a lot of preamble before the story starts, which is the author catching you up to where everyone is geographically and figuratively - and although well written, the book is still bloated with pomposity in its language and over-philosophizing, and this detracts from what is an enjoyable story now cut short (this is the second in the trilogy, and you still can't trust anyone but the dogs it seems)...
For these reasons, this book is a struggle to love and gets three stars.
Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create …
Part 2 - let's see where this fantasy series takes us!
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.
In the slums of …
Content warning May contain hints of some plot points/elements
This book is longish but can be completed in one or two sittings (184,483)...
Reading the blurb is a little sleight of hand - you imagine that the blurb is the central part of the story (it is the point rather than the main part)...
The blurb doesn't reach the dead person mentioned in the blurb until about 75% of the way through, maybe as much as 90% of the way through! So forget that, and enjoy the journey from slum to manse (a very British word for a minister's house)...
The world-building is deftly done, very slight but generally enough - it's earth or a parallel earth with Noah's ark mentioned and a variation of the Horse or Troy, but it's a world with magic, which makes me suspect there is a history yet to be revealed... We've been following the unaware main character, which doesn't elucidate enough of the world to understand everything.
There is an 'interlude' where we are gifted the viewpoint of a particularly unusual character (but not so unusual for fantasy), but it works; it is the most philosophical chapter.
There is so much here - but the story is undoubtedly solid and well-paced (though, of course, you want it to move quicker when reading) - it is incredibly well written, though the use of words may be a little pompous - it hasn't been aimed at the same reading age as 'The Sun' (7 y.o. ) - and this perhaps will place it in a hard to read category for some.
I look forward to the sequel to see how the main character resolves and learn more about this world.
