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A review by sandygx260
Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
3.0
Brilliant idea. I was all over this, thinking this had to be the best book I'd read in ages.
Well, no. Unfortunately the story stumbled and flailed. I'm all for internalization, but not in the middle of sequences where the story needs to move along. Too much detail, distraction, and diversion hindered the story's progress to the point it felt like padding out the story just to make it a novel.
This book followed the opposite of one writer's advice... when things slowed down, he advised blowing something up just for the hell of it. At times this story tossed a sodden hoop skirt over the action.
Still, I'll see what part two holds for us.
Well, no. Unfortunately the story stumbled and flailed. I'm all for internalization, but not in the middle of sequences where the story needs to move along. Too much detail, distraction, and diversion hindered the story's progress to the point it felt like padding out the story just to make it a novel.
This book followed the opposite of one writer's advice... when things slowed down, he advised blowing something up just for the hell of it. At times this story tossed a sodden hoop skirt over the action.
Still, I'll see what part two holds for us.