Warwick Stubbs’s Reviews > Lord Valentine's Castle > Status Update

The travelogue adventure up to this point was becoming a bit of a bore with the writing almost journeyman-like. Attacks, near death escapes, sunken ships, etc; all is helping Valentine see his world and how it works, but presented in ho-hum storytelling.

Very "readable" as The Times quote puts it, though at this stage, it's hardly comparable to Dune.