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Posts Tagged ‘Narrative’

Review: The Ambassador’s Mission (Traitor Spy Trilogy Book 1), By Trudi Canavan

December 15, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

The Ambasador’s Mission, released in April 2011, is the first book in the continuing saga of Sonea, and a few other characters, from Trudi Canavan’s The Black Magician Trilogy (circa 2001).  We rejoin Sonea, her son, and Cery for further adventures.

The Ambassador’s Mission, as far as its own story goes, drags.  The narrative is chalked full of superfluous text that drowns out more important aspects in favor of droning political intrigue.  When read as a continuation of The Black Magician Trilogy, some of this is forgivable.  But, anyone picking up this story without having read the former will be seriously wanting for explanations.
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Categories: Book Reviews, Fantasy Tags: Ambasador, Ambassador, Black Magician, Concrete Examples, Continuation, Explanations, Further Adventures, Good Reason, Insinuation, Missing Pieces, Narrative, Political Intrigue, Powerful Magic, Saga, Sonea, Superfluous Text, Tomes, Traitor, Trilogy, Trudi Canavan

I Finally Did It, I Downloaded Martin’s Game Of Thrones (A Song Of Fire And Ice Book 1)

December 9, 2012 Mathias 1 comment

A lot of people might find it odd, but I have never read George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice Book 1).

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Categories: General Things Tags: Behemoth, Book People, Books, Fire And Ice, Fire Ice, Game Book, Game Of Thrones, George R R Martin, Lot, Narrative, Odd, People Find, Reason, Saga, Song Of Fire, Sorts, Tight, Worth Reading

Book Review: Mark Lawrence’s Prince of Thorns

December 3, 2012 Mathias 13 comments

Prince of Thorns, the debut novel my Mark Lawrence, follows the story of Jorg, a Prince with a particularly mean streak.  At the age of nine, Jorg watches as his mother and brother are brutally murdered.  He then embarks on a quest for vengeance.  It ‘s a story that has been told, and told successfully, many times.

I think that one thing is clear, Mark Lawrence has a way with words and uses them compellingly to set scenes.  But I also think one other thing is also very clear – in Prince of Thorns, that same talent is not used to give depth to the characters or the overall plot.  Prince Jorg is about as one-dimensional as they come.  His gratuitous callousness is never truly counterbalanced with a desire to feel sorry for him (which would have given him other dimensions he so sorely needed). Read more…

Categories: Book Reviews, Fantasy Tags: Beating Heart, Blood Gore, Callousness, Choices, Debut Novel, Flesh, Mean Streak, Narrative, Organs, Prince, Psychopath, Rape, Sensibilities, Skeleton, Sorts, Tendons, Thorns, Vengeance, Violence, Watches
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