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Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull (The History of the Runestaff #1)

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Fantasy legend Michael Moorcock won hundreds of thousands of readers with his vast and imaginative multiverse, in which Law and Chaos wage war through endless alternative universes, struggling over the fundamental rules of existence.

Moorcock's heroes of the multiverse have been lauded as some of the most influential characters in fantasy. Among the Eternal Champions,Dorian...more

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Published January 5th 2010 by Tor Books (first published January 1st 1967)

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Feb 02, 2013 StoryTellerShannon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-scifi, owned, books-reviewed, action

It's a 3 1/2 story but I gave it 4 stars as I felt some of the reviewers were too harsh.
OVERALL FEELING: Evil Empire trying to take over an alternative European world; standard pulp swords and sorcery; easy read; somewhat good; few interesting points; some interesting characters; some are caricatures; flows well.

MARKETING APPEAL: This story came about in the 60s, I believe, when pulp sci fi magazines were a big thing; I doubt it made a lot of money at first but the Eternal Champion, most notably...more

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Mar 16, 2009 Paul rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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First of a series, this fantasy story is about Count Brass, a man who runs the small kingdom of Kamarg, in what we know as southern France. He wants to spend his remaining years in peace and serenity, so he has no interest in allying with anyone, against anyone. Kamarg is also the last holdout against the forces of Granbretan, the Dark Empire, who have been uniting the many warring factions in Europe.

Baron Meliadus, the right-hand man to the Granbretan king, pays a visit to talk alliance between...more First of a series, this fantasy story is about Count Brass, a man who runs the small kingdom of Kamarg, in what we know as southern France. He wants to spend his remaining years in peace and serenity, so he has no interest in allying with anyone, against anyone. Kamarg is also the last holdout against the forces of Granbretan, the Dark Empire, who have been uniting the many warring factions in Europe.

Baron Meliadus, the right-hand man to the Granbretan king, pays a visit to talk alliance between Kamarg and Granbretan. Count Brass is not interested. Meliadus is infatuated with Brass's daughter, Yisselda, and attempts to kidnap her. It doesn't work, and Meliadus is thrown out of the castle.

Back in Granbretan, Meliadus decides to send someone else to kidnap Yisselda. Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Koln, is a recent loser against Granbretan, and has been held prisoner for a while. Promised his lands and title if he succeeds, his loyalty is assured by a black jewel implanted in his forehead. It will let Granbretan see everything Hawkmoon sees, and it can be used to destroy Hawkmoon's mind, if necessary.

The people of Castle Brass are able to temporarily neutralize the black jewel, rendering it useless to Granbretan. A large force is sent from Granbretan, to take care of Hawkmoon and Castle Brass, once and for all. Even with a 20 to 1 advantage, a combination of Hawkmoon's military knowledge and several high-tech weapons stationed around the castle leads to a huge defeat for Granbretan.

The neutralizing of the black jewel will not last forever, so Hawkmoon undertakes a journey far to the southwest (approximately present-day Iran) to find Malagigi, the only person with enough sorcery to permanently neutralize the jewel. When he arrives, Hawkmoon finds himself in the middle of a civil war brought about by an attack from Granbretan and Meliadus.

This one is really good. It has plenty of action. Moorcock is a veteran in the fantasy field, so he very much knows what he is doing. For Conan fans looking for something else to read, look here. It is well worth reading.

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Feb 07, 2013 Al rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Moorcock's heroes of the multiverse have been lauded as some of the most influential characters in fantasy. Among the Eternal Champions, Dorian Hawkmoon is one of the most loved. In the far future, Hawkmoon is pulled unwillingly into a war that will eventually pit him against the ruthless Baron Meliadus and the armies of the Dark Empire. Antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines serve as a backdrop to this high adventure.

Dorian Hawkmoon, the last Duke of Koln, swore to destroy the Dark Empire of Granbretan. But after his defeat and capture at the hands of the vast forces of the Empire. Hawkmoon becomes a puppet co-opted by his arch nemesis to infiltrate the last stronghold of rebellion against Granbretan, the small but powerful city of Kamarang. He's been implanted with a black jewel, through whose power the Dark Empire can control his every decision. But in the city of Kamarang, Hawkmoon discovers the power inside him to overcome any control, and his vengeance against the Dark Empire is filled with an unrelenting fury.

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This classic sword and sorcery novel from 1967 finds a shattered future Europe recovering from the Tragic Millennium spent under the control of the overtly evil Dark Empire of Granbretan. The reclusive Count Brass, lord of the former French region Kamarg, enrages the empire when he spurns an offer of alliance. Imperial envoy Baron Meliadus sends defeated rebel Dorian Hawkmoon to kidnap Brass's daughter, Yisselda, but Hawkmoon's inherent morality, his own infatuation with Yisselda, and Brass's kindness lead Hawkmoon to ally with Brass though he knows it spells his own doom. This novel is quite short by modern standards, giving the story a compressed and distilled effect. There is little space for nuanced politics or any depth of characterization, but the action is extremely fast-paced, and Moorcock fits more plot into 224 pages than other authors manage in a dozen volumes. (Jan.)
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"The greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy."
--Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of *The Yiddish Policemen's Union

"If you are at all interested in fantastic fiction, you must read Michael Moorcock. He changed the field single-handedly: he's a giant. He has kept me entertained, shocked, and fascinated for as long as I have been reading."
--Tad Williams, New York Times* bestselling author of the Otherland series

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Jan 31, 2013 Dana Larose rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, owned

1960s pulp sword & sorcery by the guy who brought you Elric and Stormbringer (actually I gather Hawkmoon is part of Moorcock's Eternal Champion multiverse). It's about what you can expect from the genre and era, but Moorcock was an important early influence on 70s and 80s fantasy, as well as Dungeons & Dragons.

It's set in a future Europe that has reverted to a medieval level of technology, with some remaining technology plus magic (they talk about sorcerer-scientists). Great Britain (Gra...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Smcleish rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Originally published on my blog here in March 1999.

The first of Moorcock's Runestaff series really sets the tone of his mature style. Like many of his fantasy novels, it fits in with his ideas about the Eternal Champion, which is a mechanism by which all his heroes are in fact more or less interchangeable aspects of one archetypal hero.

The atmosphere of the book is typical of Moorcock. It is set in a Europe far into the future, in a civilisation recovered after a nuclear holocaust. The Dark Empi...more Originally published on my blog here in March 1999.

The first of Moorcock's Runestaff series really sets the tone of his mature style. Like many of his fantasy novels, it fits in with his ideas about the Eternal Champion, which is a mechanism by which all his heroes are in fact more or less interchangeable aspects of one archetypal hero.

The atmosphere of the book is typical of Moorcock. It is set in a Europe far into the future, in a civilisation recovered after a nuclear holocaust. The Dark Empire of Granbretan is where most of the atmosphere is generated; this is done with little bits of descriptive writing, using symbols to evoke an emotional response: the best-masks, the dark dungeons and alchemical experimentation, the grotesque Emperor Huon. This is an empire whose legions are gradually extending it through the whole of Europe, maintaining an iron grip on the conquered populace.

Dorian Hawkmoon, the Duke of Köln, was captured by Granbretan while attempting to lead a revolt in his country, overrun by the Empire some years before. Now he is to be used against Count Brass, who has kept the Kamarg safe from the Empire and who has recently humiliated the Granbretan envoy, the sinister Baron Meliadus. Sent to betray Count Brass, Hawkmoon has a black jewel implanted in his skull by Granbretan alchemists. This not only enables them to spy on what he is doing and saying, but makes it possible to kill him from a distance at the slightest hint that he might turn against them.

Hawkmoon comes to admire Count Brass and his daughter Yisselda, and the Count uses his own knowledge of sorcery, by which he immediately recognised the Black Jewel for what it was, to temporarily neutralise it. There are now two tasks facing Hawkmoon: to destroy the armies of the Dark Empire, now massed on the borders of Kamarg, and to find a more skilled sorcerer who can destroy the power of the jewel permanently.

Exciting and atmospheric, The Jewel in the Skull is a fine introduction to Moorcock's first mature fantasy series.(less)

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Jan 31, 2012 Thanos rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Michael Moorcock is a writer whose influence in the fantasy genre can be compared even to that of Tolkien and no one can deny that.
Still, I am greatly disappointed by “The jewel in the Skull” for many reasons.
Firsts of all there is the same problem with this book that exists in all the Eternal Champion novels. Moorcock has a fondness for iconic heroes. You know who I mean; Elric the albino prince, the one-eyed and one-handed Corum and in this case Hawkmoon the German duke with the black jewel...more Michael Moorcock is a writer whose influence in the fantasy genre can be compared even to that of Tolkien and no one can deny that.
Still, I am greatly disappointed by “The jewel in the Skull” for many reasons.
Firsts of all there is the same problem with this book that exists in all the Eternal Champion novels. Moorcock has a fondness for iconic heroes. You know who I mean; Elric the albino prince, the one-eyed and one-handed Corum and in this case Hawkmoon the German duke with the black jewel implanted into his skull, they’re all iconic heroes. There is nothing bad with use of such characters of course (the three I mentioned are great, actually), but Moorcock makes a great mistake. His story is based more on his heroes and less on his world so much that sometimes it seems like the hero is the only person in the world that matters and everything happens because of him. Secondary characters exist only to oppose the hero, or to help him and seem not to have a personality at all. Oladahn is the best example; Imagine for a while that you are a half-giant with strange magical powers, living in the Bulgarian mountains far form humans and giants alike. So when a mysterious German visits your land and you accidentally kill his mount what do you do? You follow him to Persia to help him finish his quest! Makes sense, right?
Another mistake that Moorcock usually makes is giving very little detail about places and events in his books and even these completely lack of feelings. For example Asgonovos, a character in the book is a sorcerer with a freak-show caravan under his command. Bizarre, right? Well, the only description Moorcock gives is something like; Well, there where these malformed people and they were passing the forest. And that’s all that is!
And there is another thing. After reading Elric of Melnibone and the Dream-thief’s daughter I had the indirect mention of political ideologies and philosophy in mind as part of Moorcock’s writing. All this didn’t exist in the Jewel in the Skull, although the madness of the Grandbretans seems ideal for some talk on Moorcock’s “Law-Chaos theory”.
Not everything in the book is bad of course. The first two parts (of the four), are really well written and I enjoyed reading them. The world although it could be more detailed, was really interesting and of course the concept of the future medieval is more than intriguing.
Count Bronze was an exception to the rule about secondary characters, and probably the best character in the book.
Concluding, this book was disappointing. It was not what I have in mind as Michael Moorcock, but in the future I’ll give it a try and read the rest of the series, hoping that it gets better.
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Jul 25, 2011 Johnny Atomic rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Moorcock only wrote one "Eternal Champion" book. He just gave it multiple titles and filled in the rest like an anti-hero "Mad Libs". Fortunately for me, I liked the book and can see it all as just variations of some desert I really enjoy.

Here is an overview of "The Book". Feel free to use it for Corum, Erekose, Elric or what-have-you.

A juvenile, self absorbed, doomed, ant-hero archetype sets out to destroy the the "Freaked Out Evil Britain Analogy". Not because he wanted to, but because he had...more

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Dec 05, 2012 Mel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 20th-century-fiction, fantasy

I read the earlier un-revised version of this book, and I can see why he decided to go back and revise it later. In some ways it was very typical male authored fantasty, male characters doing important things, with very few female characters (though I did like the Princess in the blue plate mail!) There were a little too many fights and battles for my taste and the characters were fairly one dimensional. That said there were quite a lot of things I did like. I really liked the post-apocalyptic f...more

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Sep 16, 2009 Jorge rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Una historia de fantasía entretenida, de fácil lectura, pero con personajes demasiado planos y mal manejo del suspenso. En lugar de dosificar elementos y centrarse en los principales, Moorcock utiliza centenares de páginas en describir elementos, personajes y situaciones irrelevantes para la historia principal.

Lo divertido de la historia es que más parece el relato de las aventuras de un PJ de un juego de rol, ya que el protagonista desconoce la sutileza: entre penetrar subrepticiamente a una fo...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Doug Dandridge rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Readers of Dark Fantasy

Another Jewel in the Eternal Champion Series.
Michael Moorcock was well known for Elric of Melnibone', a manifestation of
the Eternal Champion. Dorian Hawkmoon, the Duke of Koln is another.
Fighting in an alternate Europe where the evil mages of the Empire of Grand
Britain are overrunning Europe, he faces men in beast masks, Orthnicopter
flying machines, and genetically engineered war beasts. The Jewel is
planted in Dorian's forehead in order to control him, but he breaks free,
and so begins the...more

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Sep 03, 2010 Steven rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

This is an old school Euro style capital K-Knight in shiny shiny armor, battling the bad and nasty monsters and evil foreign evil empire. Written at a more simple time (hahaha more like simple mind) it is a tale of good vs bad, corrupt vs just. it takes place in a post apocalyptic collapse of world civilization where magic Reigns supreme.
The story contains fantastical beast, mechanical and humanoid creations both living and dead and cities and castles that never could have existed. I wish The au...more

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May 05, 2013 Luke Lestrange rated it 4 of 5 stars

Good Old Fantasy.

Bad ass Warrior Hero Archetype, beautiful fair woman archetype, evil handsome villain... well it's all kind of archetype. You know what to expect and it happens. But it's still good.

It goes straight to the point, no idle distractions, Moorcock builds his world as the character discover it. No, most of the times unnecessary, side-stories and secondary characters. Characters are cool, although somewhat week (all kind of archetypes, you guess when someone is bad, or someone is a ba...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Traummachine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3.5 stars:

It's good to get back to Moorcock's Eternal Champion cycles. This time around it's a new world for me, a post-apocalyptic world of the far future following The Tragic Millenium. The Dark Empire of Granbretan has spread across a version of Europe filled with both magic and clockwork technologies.

This first book felt a bit like a cross between an Elric book and an Erekosë book. Dorian Hawkmoon, our hero, has that typical Moorcock fatalism, but unlike Elric or Erekosë he doesn't really fi...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Razael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Currently reading it. Interesting setting that could become a masterpiece, but the novel happens to be a potboiler. The prose is weak, the characters are flat and the structures is awkward. The Novel begins with Lord Brass, but the protagonist happens to be Hawkmoon who is introduced at page 30 or 40 /i can't remember the exact page/.

Jewell in the skull provides the reader with a cliche story of an Evil Dark Empired ruled by immortal empoeror that aims to conquer the world. It all happens after...more Currently reading it. Interesting setting that could become a masterpiece, but the novel happens to be a potboiler. The prose is weak, the characters are flat and the structures is awkward. The Novel begins with Lord Brass, but the protagonist happens to be Hawkmoon who is introduced at page 30 or 40 /i can't remember the exact page/.

Jewell in the skull provides the reader with a cliche story of an Evil Dark Empired ruled by immortal empoeror that aims to conquer the world. It all happens after a post apocalipse Europe after the Terrible Millenium. The orders and the royal families in the Empire, like the dog, the swine and etc. are interesting, but there is little detail and story behind them. Just orders of the empire. The empirte is called Granbretan with capital city Londra, ofcourse, and the good guys happens to be The French with the main resistans Kamarg and some rebel army including some parts of post apocaliptic france and Italy. Im not aware of the political views of Moorcock, byt maybe the setting is referrence to the 100 hundred years war between France and England. Anyway, the refference of the autor to Bulgarian people is somehow offensive for me, being a Bulgarian.

The antagonist Meliadus is somehow flat character with unknown /at least for me/ goals. At the begining of the novel he is infatuated with Brass's daughter, Yisselda, and attempts to kidnap her. It doesn't work and this is the reason for a war between Lord Brass and the Empire. I'ts a little bit awkward, how the Empire, lets stupid and childish Baron like Meliadus to disturb the relationship with so needed ally like Brass. But, like i said, the characters are flat and the author does not goes into much detail. Also if i were a woman i;d be pretty insulted by the way Moorcick portraits the only female character in this nove - Yisselda.

At some point i felt like reading Eddings novel, but badly written. The characters are omni powerfull, yet they spent time in plotting against and unbeatable empire army, which happens to be so easy to easily deafeated with none/or minumum casualties.

I'm currently reading this and soom im gonna finish it. Despite all the critics i put thos one between the old school fantasy classics, because it rly brings me the old feeling of epic quest
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Nov 21, 2010 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fantasy

Maybe not quite as good as Elric, form a "coldly logical" point of view, but I have a real soft spot for the Hawkmoon novels. This is close to the edition I read first (same cover but I read it in '74). These novels (2 Hawkmoon series) could be called the culmination of the Eternal Champion Cycle.

I stumbled on this book when I had very limited access to books. Someone else had "donated it to the cause" (I was in a situation where we all shared any book that came to anybody). I liked fantasy and...more

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Jan 23, 2008 Robert Beveridge rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: finished, owned-and-gave-away

Michael Moorcock, The Jewel in the Skull (DAW, 1967)

Dorian Hawkmoon, the last Duke of Koln, is another of Moorcock's instances of the Eternal Champion. Hawkmoon's tales are especially amusing, as the world on which Hawkmoon adventures is the nearest allegory to the world we know in Moorcock's sword-and-sorcery writing.

Count Brass, protector of the south-Provence country of Kamarg, is content to be left in peace in his castle as the Dark Empire sweeps down over Europe from the island nation of Gr...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Karen rated it 2 of 5 stars

I think this was the first Moorcock I ever read. As a teenager it really sparked my imagination, but rereading it now it just seems a bit blah.

The sexism is even worse than the last Moorcock I read, as there is only one female character in the whole book, and all she gets to do is look decorative and be an object to be stolen or loved. She barely exists outside of her value to other characters. I can only hope that she gets more agency in later volumes, but I don't hold out much hope.

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Jun 26, 2008 Sarah Sammis rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: released

By all accounts I should have loved The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock. I normally enjoy his twisted take on things. This one has plot elements I normally enjoy; it's a post apocalyptic fantasy with a mixture of science and magic but the book just left me cold. I put it down after the first sixty pages.

This first volume in the four volume History of the Runestaff series is deceptively short (160 pages or so) but dense. At the same time it's incredibly stupid. It's somewhere between Heart...more

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May 03, 2012 Jeremy Sovereign rated it 4 of 5 stars

A good book in the Moorcock catalog. I think it is one of the first in his eternal champion multiverse. It was recently re-released and this is that version. The battling in the middle got a little boring, but that's just me, but there were a lot of great ideas in the book. It was also little weird, having read the Count Brass series, which features many of the same characters and some references to the events in this series. So my interpretation of the characters were probably influenced by tha...more

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Mar 21, 2011 Joe Stamber rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-1980s

This is a great fantasy novel that is not quite as wacky as some of MM's others. It's a long time since I've read it, but it's only just left my collection along with many other of my MM books (lucky for customers at Barnardo's in Lincoln!), but as soon as I read the back cover it brought it back.

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Feb 20, 2011 Mike McDevitt rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gold ornithopters, red riding flamingos, blue horses, black jewel, green clovers and purple horseshoes.
Sword play and questing, with uninteresting characters, but I enjoyed the odd creature or two.
Not my type of story, I could barely muster interest.
It was, however, mercifully short.

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Jan 31, 2012 Sebina (Classicmaiden) rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I'm so glad I finally read my first Michael Moorcock. Will definitely read the rest of this 4 book series and later, hopefully, I will read the subsequent trilogy... We'll see... I also want to get to his Elric books. I've heard for a long time about the so-called Moorcockian Multiverse, and I want to read more and get into that!

Seriously, I LOVED this book! It was... amazing; great prose writing, a wonderfully easy-to-read and fast-paced book, brilliant world-building within a 224 pages book, c...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Arax Miltiadous rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ο τρίτος πρόμαχος είναι εδώ.
τοποθετημένος χρονικά στην δικιά μας διάσταση, σε ένα μελλοντικό ευτελισμό του ανθρωπίνου είδους στην δύση της ιστορίας του...
Συμπαθητικότατος πρόμαχος, ακόμη δεν με έχει κερδίσει.
ο Moorcock παραμένει υπέροχος, με πολλές περιγραφές και αστείρευτη φαντασία.

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Apr 10, 2009 Al Tarancón rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasia

My edition seems to be from a different editor, Mayflower, but it's not listed, and these seems the closer one, in cover and age.

Mi edicion parece ser de otro editor, Mayflower, pero no aparece listada, y esta parece la mas sililar, en portada y epoca.

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Aug 29, 2010 Pepper Thorn rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is perfectly balanced. Just enough action to keep it light and fast paced, just enough character to make you care. If I had a scale of 1-10 instead of just five, this book would get a full ten.

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May 31, 2010 Chris rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-reading-list

This book seemed to have a decent plot, but I found that the exposition was really poor. It felt more like I was reading through a long summary of the story rather than the story itself; each element was introduced and then resolved without much emotion in the writing at all. Characters' moods and opinions changed however the story needed them to with little realism or explanation. Problems tended to be resolved very simply and quickly, but rather than seeming to have "Mary Sue" characters, it f...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Sergio rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fun early Moorcock. The characters were pretty flat, and much of the character development was just rushed through to get to the action, but it was entertaining. A step up from the first Elric quartet, but he got better a few years later.

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Dec 06, 2010 Grim rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very, very average book, but I guess that's what you get when you read groundbreaking dark fantasy 43 years late.

meh

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May 06, 2012 Peter rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: alternate-history, fantasy, science-fiction

One of the first SF books I read - I feel the Runestaff Trilogy didn't age well for me as they don't resonate now

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Jun 27, 2011 Cody rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Read on my nook. It was interesting enough but hasn't aged all that well. I'll probably read the next book in the series, but I'm not super excited about it.

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