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I was told this was an "edgy" book, but it read more like Black Company lite. The characters may not be nice, but they're all beautiful, born into powerful families, and warriors without parallel. Yes, yes, there's blood and guts and swearing and sex--and this is different from half of what comes out of the fantasy genre these days how? "Gritty" has been the byword of choice for over a decade. You need to do more to catch my interest.
Unfortunately, Morgan didn't. The first three hundred plus pa ...more
Unfortunately, Morgan didn't. The first three hundred plus pa ...more
This is the sort of book that, at the end of the day, I waned to like more than I actually did. Richard K. Morgan has come up with a setting and history for The Steel Remains that could, in its own right, fill several additional books. But, and I hate to say it, I think that it's ultimately more interesting than the plot of this book itself. The backstory is what kept me interested, from the Kiriath's devices burrowing into the depths of the earth to find portals back to their own world, to the
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It took almost 250 pages for me to get invested in "The Steel Remains." There's a lot of back story, which I usually like. But here the main characters are still very much tied to events of the past, so much so that I checked more than once to see if this was the second book in a trilogy. Its real strength is that the characters act like real people, with all the associated pettiness, greed, and occasional flawed nobility. It's tone is unflinchingly gritty. No magic spells make everything all be
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So where to start. This was a great book! I started reading thinking it was about something else (I had seen it as a recommendation and I don't usually read blurbs) but soon discovered it wasn't historic fiction but fantasy - which was fine because I love both!
This series has three main protagonists though there was a chapter also from another character. The characters know each other but don't join forces until the end, I'm not sure if this is common in fantasy novels but I found it refreshing. ...more
This series has three main protagonists though there was a chapter also from another character. The characters know each other but don't join forces until the end, I'm not sure if this is common in fantasy novels but I found it refreshing. ...more
Life is too short.
Jan 02, 2012
Lindsay
marked it as to-read
May 14, 2016
Nocturnalux
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Feb 06, 2018
Erynn Wilson
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