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The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the …
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City …
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. ❤️&💔
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.
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
A collection of connected short stories set in a fictional [possibly post-apocolyptic] empire about its many rulers and cities and across many years. The stories are short and leave you wanting to know more about the people in them.
The writing is tight with just enough description to convince you they're being told by an oral storyteller, but it's not flowery and at times you wish you could hear a little bit more description.
However, one failing is how the stories connect. Other than the oral storyteller and the empire they pertain to, one is left wondering what connects them together. What are the relationships between all the emperors and empresses? Unfortunately, I suspect that would require a fictional history lesson and a long kings list, which would most certainly distract from the stories themselves.
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
A collection of connected short stories set in a fictional [possibly post-apocolyptic] empire about its many rulers and cities and across many years. The stories are short and leave you wanting to know more about the people in them.
The writing is tight with just enough description to convince you they're being told by an oral storyteller, but it's not flowery and at times you wish you could hear a little bit more description.
However, one failing is how the stories connect. Other than the oral storyteller and the empire they pertain to one is left wondering what connects them together. What are the relationships between all the emperors and impresses? Unfortunately, I suspect that would require a fictional history lesson and a long kings list, which would most certainly distract from the stories themselves.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon …
"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose …
When her growing beauty begins to resemble her mother's too closely, Princess Lissar must flee her father's wrath, and, in …
“Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human …
A wizard, accustomed to the company only of great legendary beast, is introduced to the human world with all its …
Who Fears Death is a science fantasy novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, published in 2010 by DAW, an imprint …
Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. The castle where he finds …