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A review by lanica
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
1.0
I read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series and loved it. I read it twice and have autographed copies to save. I enjoy epics. I enjoy detail. I enjoy science fiction, computers, virtual reality, anthropology, history, sociology, political intrigue and all the other individual elements of this series. Unfortunetly, I really disliked this book.
I liked the little girl who got messages through her computer, and I liked the sick boy who created a virtual reality that was easier to live in. Other than those two I could care less about any of the characters, and there were a lot of characters. I read the whole book thinking that there should be some sort of connection between them, but it didn't come. I waited for the plot to advance, yet it seemed to seep slowly through the pages and pages of detail.
I read the second book and found that some of these ideas came together, but not quickly or interestingly enough to hold my attention. I didn't read book three or four and don't intend to. This was a great dissapointment to me. I have to really dislike a book to set it aside, and that it was a series from one of my favorite authors was really heartbreaking.
I liked the little girl who got messages through her computer, and I liked the sick boy who created a virtual reality that was easier to live in. Other than those two I could care less about any of the characters, and there were a lot of characters. I read the whole book thinking that there should be some sort of connection between them, but it didn't come. I waited for the plot to advance, yet it seemed to seep slowly through the pages and pages of detail.
I read the second book and found that some of these ideas came together, but not quickly or interestingly enough to hold my attention. I didn't read book three or four and don't intend to. This was a great dissapointment to me. I have to really dislike a book to set it aside, and that it was a series from one of my favorite authors was really heartbreaking.