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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
The key to reading and enjoying Morgan is to not stop. His plotting sometimes feels held together with cobwebs, and if you think about it too much, you'll notice it doesn't really flow from point to point that well.
That's the nature of his hardboiled style; The BIg Sleep certainly doesn't hold up all that well. But like a cartoon, if you run the frames quickly enough you don't notice the gaps between each one.
So my problem with this book is that I have forgotten all but the 10000 foot details of The Steel Remains. I had to spend too much time thinking about what was happening, so I could sense the jutter.
Still, in the end, he pulls together the strands to make for a thrilling end.
That's the nature of his hardboiled style; The BIg Sleep certainly doesn't hold up all that well. But like a cartoon, if you run the frames quickly enough you don't notice the gaps between each one.
So my problem with this book is that I have forgotten all but the 10000 foot details of The Steel Remains. I had to spend too much time thinking about what was happening, so I could sense the jutter.
Still, in the end, he pulls together the strands to make for a thrilling end.
I like this well enough, but for some reason it didn't click with me the way the first book did. I think the reliance on deus ex machina is wearing. Still, I have book three downloaded and ready to listen to.
Protagonist ordered the rape of a female character.
That pretty much took my interest in this book out back and shot it.
That pretty much took my interest in this book out back and shot it.
Not too bad. Took a while to get going and was really good at the end. Could have been 100 pages shorter if the writing was tighter and better edited.
Gritty, violent, unlikable characters, yet I was still gripped. Enticing lead into Book 3
So long since the last one that I couldn't remember what was what, but as always the second half of the story was worth the confusion of the first half.
Ok. Wow. I wasn't bored at all--even if Egar is boring, the stuff he got into wasn't.
In this book, Ringil's a bit less Bloody Nine and a bit more Rand circa [b:The Dragon Reborn|34897|The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time, #3)|Robert Jordan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312032881s/34897.jpg|791061]. At least, he spends more time being crazy than he does belligerent, and somehow that makes me like him more.
Also, at some point the dwenda turned into the Slabs from Doctor Who. Did anyone else have this problem?
I was sad to learn that I will have to wait a year for the sequel.
In this book, Ringil's a bit less Bloody Nine and a bit more Rand circa [b:The Dragon Reborn|34897|The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time, #3)|Robert Jordan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312032881s/34897.jpg|791061]. At least, he spends more time being crazy than he does belligerent, and somehow that makes me like him more.
Also, at some point the dwenda turned into the Slabs from Doctor Who. Did anyone else have this problem?
I was sad to learn that I will have to wait a year for the sequel.
A great follow-up to The Steel Remains. While very much the middle book in the trilogy, the character development and setup for book three is strong and the writing is fantastic.
At times the prose here is transcendental and the characters are all great. Perhaps because it was so long since I read the first one, that this one lost me a couple of times in the complexity of it's mythology, world-building and deep character roster. In those times I sort of felt like Ringil as he wandered the Grey Places, getting the basic gist of things but unable to discern much detail. Still, this is a highly original and dark world and set of anti-heroes Mr. Morgan has created and I'm excited to read the third chapter.
