I was, alas, mostly reminded of ' The Tough Guide to Fantasyland and its catalogue of the predictable and incoherent in fantasy novels. There isn't anything seriously icky or totally ill-planned in this one, but there also isn't anything new or surprising¹ and there are far too many sentences that jolt me to a halt. Not worth finishing.
If you like your next fantasy novel to be very *like* other thick fantasy novels, the sentences He was slender like a reed, but not bereft of heft and muscle.
At first it was a bit sour, but after a while, she was convinced of its fruity flavor.
don't bother you, and you know me, drop by and pick it up.
Updated Sep. 7th, 2003: Also fruity and a bit sour; the Evil Warlord wondering how to get across to his Icy Henchwoman that he finds her attractive. He worries like a stock Corporate Evildoer trying to seduce his CFO despite his paunch and fear of lawsuits. In someone purportedly proud of his murderous, wolf-on-the-fold ancestors, it's risible.
¹ Old clichés shuffled would be fine.
ISBN: 0-88677-858-1
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