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The Braided Path: Weavers of Saramyr, The Skein of Lament, The Ascendancy Veil (Braided Path #1-3)
The three books making up the richly textured, darkly evocative Braided Path trilogy are collected here: "The Weavers of Saramyr, ""The Skein of Lament," and "The Ascendancy Veil." The empire of Saramyr has relied on Weavers, a secretive sect of magicians, for far too long. Now the Weavers, manipulating space and time through the Weave of exis...more
Paperback, 992 pages
Published
September 28th 2007
by Gollancz
(first published September 28th 2006)
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The second book in the Braided Path epic builds on the foundations laid in the introduction to the world of Saramyr and its vicious magic weavers. while the story suffers a little from the middle of the series syndrome, the characterisation remains strong, we get to find out more about the world and about the wevers plot to dominate it. The battle sequences toward the end more than make up for the slower parts in the middle, and the epilogue foreshadows some of the surprises ...more
The second book in the Braided Path epic builds on the foundations laid in the introduction to the world of Saramyr and its vicious magic weavers. while the story suffers a little from the middle of the series syndrome, the characterisation remains strong, we get to find out more about the world and about the wevers plot to dominate it. The battle sequences toward the end more than make up for the slower parts in the middle, and the epilogue foreshadows some of the surprises ...more
This is the first trilogy that I've come across where each book is better than the last. For me, I usually find that the first is best and the second is the worst, with the third somewhere in the middle. With The Braided Path I struggled a little with Weavers of Saramyr The country and culture of Saramyr is hugely complex and seems to be largely based on Oriental culture. While it was an interesting premise, it was only with the increasingly complex story that I really began to enjoy this series...more
recently read this and it went stright into my top 10. Amazing trilogy - oriental world slowly decaying and the mutations spawned become it's ultimate saviours. Sexy and emotional. you get really behind the characters.
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This reads like a post-modern fantasy. There isn't much to set it apart from your ordinary, quick and perfectly acceptable read in its general sweep and over-arching story. It's just that in all the details it is different. Pseudo-Asian rather than pseudo-European. Women rather than men. Power that universally does harm rather than good. Not a thing wrong with any of that but the whole book just got sort of tedious because it ended up just being an inversion of every fantasy cliche imaginable. T...more
I loved how gritty this omnibus is. It keeps my attention even though I've read it before.
It was ok, nothing special. The first book weavers of Saramyr was pretty good but i really struggled to keep interest with this series and it seems to have taken me forever to finish. The story has some nice ideas, and Chris Wooding writing is good but i found the plot and most of the characters a bit dull.
I was disappointed in this novel. It had the character development that I expect from Wooding but it was too political for my to really get involved in the story. I read the first of the three in the trilogy and could not find the desire to read the other two.
I really enjoyed this series. If you like this you'll also like. The Daughter of the Empire Series
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