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I picked up this book because I loved Ms. Carey's books about Kushiel, and I read a review by the author George RR Martin.
This is very different from Kushiel's Dart, and a very good high-fantasy in the manner of Tolkien, Martin, and Eddings. As all the plot summaries and all the other reviews state, this is an epic fantasy told from more than just the "good" guys' perspective. It presents the shunned, hated, and slightly mad god (called a Shaper) as the one wronged at the cracking of the world, ...more
This is very different from Kushiel's Dart, and a very good high-fantasy in the manner of Tolkien, Martin, and Eddings. As all the plot summaries and all the other reviews state, this is an epic fantasy told from more than just the "good" guys' perspective. It presents the shunned, hated, and slightly mad god (called a Shaper) as the one wronged at the cracking of the world, ...more
I'm really in love with the concept of this book. It's a tragic take on Lord of the Rings told from the "bad guys" perspective. It doesn't revel in sinister imagery or "evil" but presents, very sympathetically, the plight of the other side of the traditional fantasy/black & white dichotomy. It doesn't do it, however, in a way that is unsympathetic to the "good" side either. What results is an incredibly nuanced look at the idea of good and evil--with emphasis on the grey of both sides (although
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Fairly average. Well-plotted.
Good, but not nearly the caliber I've come to expect from Jaqueline Carey . . .
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