a prequel set a millennium before The Dragonbone Chair and previously known under the working title The Shadow of Things to Come There are plenty of better series out there for anyone craving adult fantasy.This is complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy writer Tad Williams.
Honestly, I just forced myself to read this because I bought all the entire series at once. While not necessarily a problem, it is the fact he has juxtaposed it with archaic (medieval style) language and it just does not work. Williams uses modern day style language and phrases that just feel out of place in the world he has created. Similarly, the character dialogue was very, for lack of a better way of describing it, cringy. This could have been redeemable, but the descriptions/introspections were just boring and I found myself skipping most of it because it did not really add anything meaningful. Some chapters, which were several pages long, were literally description and internal monologues/thoughts of the character and nothing else. I had to read it a couple of times to realize what happened, and what happened was stupid to be frank and reminded me more of Disney than adult fantasy.Īlso, Williams' overly rambly and waffly style just got too much for me in the end. The main villain finally appears, in all his might and power, only to disappear in the same chapter and how it happens is quite confusing. The climax happens in last few chapters and it was meh. Also, the story still felt like set up, needlessly so. Binabik and Josua were the only interesting characters that proved to be multidimensional in the end. Particularly Simon everything he has been through should have made him more interesting, but Williams still portrays him as a dumb teenager, full of hormones and unrealistic dreams of glory and honour. Considering this is the last book in the series, none of the characters really develop or grow. While the initial set up of the story was interesting, Williams failed in his delivery and ending. Honestly, this is just about made it in the category of mediocre for me. After an extensive search via Google, this kept coming up as a recommendation for anyone wanting a George RR Martin style story. After reading 'A Song of Ice and Fire', I found myself craving more dark and gritty adult fantasy.
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