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Imaro: The Quest for Cush (Imaro #2)

Charles R. Saunders

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Nov 12, 2020 Clint rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sword-sorcery, dead-trees, fantasy, studies-in-fantasy, 2020, sword-sorcery-group-read

I enjoyed this volume more than volume 1. Like book 1, it is a series of adventures stitched together to make a novel. Book 1 takes up half the book, the other three books are much shorter. Things I liked:

- Saunders sets up what I assumed to be a battle between Bulgula and Imaro, then pulls the rug out from under the reader.

- Imaro struggles with switching from being the protector to being the protected. Later, he fears being tamed, only to subject to being so.

- I really dug Imaro being infli ...more

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Jul 22, 2014 Joseph rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own

This is probably the best sword and sorcery novel I have read in the last decade. Granted I haven't been reading in that genre for awhile, as I did not think there were still works for me to discover that would invoke that same sense of wonder I was given when I first started reading books in this genre. Well, now I stand corrected. Charles Saunders' writing is poetic, but not overly flowery, his plotting and pacing are masterful, and his characters are interesting, varied and believable in thei ...more

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