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reading it now - I'm only about 10% of the way in, but so far it's been really good. It's different from Blood Song though because it uses multiple character POVs instead of just Vaelin. Seems like most of the negative reviews I saw on Amazon had that as their main criticism, but it isn't bothering me.
I have it and am rereading Blood Song as it somehow has fled from my memory (I wish so many more good books would). Tower Lord is next.
Finished it a few days ago. It was OK, but nowhere near the standard of the first book. Rather than follow a single PoV character as in the first book, there are 4 threads going here, only only two of them (just barely) come together by the end of the book. The other two PoV characters are just left kind of hanging. Some of the negative reviews are based on this change, I thought the idea was OK, just not executed very well. Some of the character development seems poorly done, there's one character that abruptly moves from one extreme to the other in the space of a few weeks. Plot wise not that much actually happens either.
finished it last night - I actually enjoyed it a lot and stayed up late to get through the last 5-6 chapters. I re-read Blood Song a couple weeks ago in preparation for this one, and I wasn't quite as impressed with it the second time around (the first half is a little weaker than I remembered, although the second half is awesome). I think Tower Lord is probably a notch below Blood Song overall, but I thought it was still pretty good, and I felt like there was still plenty of dark edge. I hear ya that none of the main characters actually die, but there was still lots of rough stuff happening to/around them.
I liked the idea of the multiple PoVs to widen the scope of the story, just didn't think it was done very well. Reva's sudden lurch from where she started to what she became was a little bit eye rolling for me, but I think the character and that transition had a lot of potential, again just not done very well. I didn't like that the Lyrna and Frentis threads never connected with the main arc during the whole book either.
I'll have to look into the rest, but I can say that The Forge of God is easily one of the best Sci-Fi books ever written.
Mostly these novels are standalone, set in a fictionalised equivalent to various parts of historical Europe or Asia. It's only the two books set in a Byzantine Empire equivalent which are a series as far as I know.
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Finished it a couple of weeks ago... good book.. easy read, but nothing super spectacular.
Any other non-fiction recommendations? Looking for some books for an upcoming flight/trip.
Up to page 300, pretty interesting so far. I know nothing about India so I'm learning a bit.
I could see that, the stories were great. I just get bored and don't enjoy it when I know where the story is going since I have seen it. Was interesting to read the slight differences in the stories though.
That one is still sitting on my bookshelf from when I purchased a few years ago. One of these days...
Added to my list. That's an ambitious comparison. To Kill a Mockingbird is perhaps the great American novel and Grapes of Wrath is amazing in its own right. If this is even on the same playing field as those two I'm sure I'll be more than pleased.
I thought it was just fantastic, read it in 3 days. The most amazing part is the author was 23 when she wrote it. It is a character driven story that touches on race, poverty, politics, lots of similar themes to TKAM and GoW. Also, one of the main characters is a 13 year old girl so that is somewhat reminiscent of Scout. I have to imagine this book was a major influence on Lee. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
