half a book is better than none
Sep. 21st, 2007 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouInda, by Sherwood Smith
The first thing to say is that this is a wonderful, wonderful book. Solid characters, thoughtful prose, intriguing twists & turns in the plot, and lovely writing. Everything I could possibly want in an epic fantasy. I absolutely recommend it. But. I would wait to read it until you also have its sequel The Fox on hand, so that you don't find yourself, as I did, getting 20 pages from the end and saying "ARGH THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY RESOLVE THESE THINGS IN 20 PAGES," and then discovering that you are right, they can't. I mean, it was as much of an ending as you can have in the middle of the story, well-crafted and all, and it's a long book so I can see why they needed to cut it off, but I want the rest! Right now! Argh!
(199/250)
The first thing to say is that this is a wonderful, wonderful book. Solid characters, thoughtful prose, intriguing twists & turns in the plot, and lovely writing. Everything I could possibly want in an epic fantasy. I absolutely recommend it. But. I would wait to read it until you also have its sequel The Fox on hand, so that you don't find yourself, as I did, getting 20 pages from the end and saying "ARGH THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY RESOLVE THESE THINGS IN 20 PAGES," and then discovering that you are right, they can't. I mean, it was as much of an ending as you can have in the middle of the story, well-crafted and all, and it's a long book so I can see why they needed to cut it off, but I want the rest! Right now! Argh!
(199/250)
