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lightfoxing's review against another edition
5.0
Ducornet's writing has an incredible sense of pacing, frequently both ponderous and breathless, dragging the reader under without their ever noticing. The prose has an intensely dreamy quality to it, as do the characters, although even those who exist mostly ephemerally (like Etheria) are grounded in incredible emotion that would suffer from hollowness in the hands of a less skilled writer.
george_salis's review
4.0
From Rikki Ducornet's afterword titled "Waking to Eden": "I like to imagine that Adam's tongue, his palate and his lips were always on fire, that the air he breathed was kindled to incandescence each time he cried out in sorrow or delight. If fiction can be said to have a function, it is to release that primary fury of which language, even now, is miraculously capable--from the dry mud of daily use. So that furred, spotted and striped, it may--as it did in Eden--scrawl under every tree as revelation."
lmrising's review
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
alexlanz's review against another edition
This part of the tetralogy addresses art and capitalism most directly.
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