Edward Cox (1)
Autore di The Relic Guild
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Serie
Opere di Edward Cox
Walking Like Morpheus 2 copie
Opere correlate
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy (2023) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Essex, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- creative writing professor
- Organizzazioni
- University of Bedfordshire
- Agente
- John Berlyne (Zeno Agency)
- Breve biografia
- Edward Cox began writing stories at school as a way to pass time in boring lessons. With his first short story published in 2000, Edward spent much of the next decade earning a BA 1st class with honours in creative writing, and a Master degree in the same subject. He then went on to teach creative writing at the University of Bedfordshire.
Currently living in Essex with his wife and daughter, Edward is mostly surrounded by fine greenery and spiders the size of his hand. The Relic Guild is his first completed novel, and it is the result of more than ten years of obsessive writing.
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The first thing I want to mention was the top-notch narration, as I listened to it as an audio book; there was a whole host of different characters with individual personalities and backgrounds, and all of them were easily distinguished from one another thanks to the variety of tones and accents.
That said, the story was marvelously spun through a myriad of viewpoints, both current and past, weaved into a fascinating and detailed landscape. The Labyrinth was wonderfully imagined, and easy to lose yourself in. The characters were fantastically realised and a combination of hate to love and love to hate that really worked so perfectly for the story. The magic system is complex, but relatively easy to understand, although the author hasn't gone into a great deal of detail up until this point; it seems to be broadly divided into human magic, elf(?) magic and higher magic.
It ended with a lot of open story lines and unanswered questions, so I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.… (altro)
That said, the story was marvelously spun through a myriad of viewpoints, both current and past, weaved into a fascinating and detailed landscape. The Labyrinth was wonderfully imagined, and easy to lose yourself in. The characters were fantastically realised and a combination of hate to love and love to hate that really worked so perfectly for the story. The magic system is complex, but relatively easy to understand, although the author hasn't gone into a great deal of detail up until this point; it seems to be broadly divided into human magic, elf(?) magic and higher magic.
It ended with a lot of open story lines and unanswered questions, so I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.A grimdark fantasy novella. Knights enter a dark forest in search of their ruler's kidnapped heir. The twist: all the characters are female. The only named male characters mentioned are the kidnapped sons of the two rulers. All other named characters are female. It felt very northern European in tone; the knights came across as Teutonic Knights, all bone-headed pride and religious bigotry, the forest people were quite nasty and xenophobic elves, and the necromancer responsible for the kidnappings was suitable evil. It felt rather like the big bads in the Heirs of Alexandria series if it had been written by Glen Cook.
There's a nasty twist at the end.
Not bad, but not something I'd have gone out of my way to get.… (altro)
There's a nasty twist at the end.
Not bad, but not something I'd have gone out of my way to get.… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I really enjoyed this book. It had an interesting premise, a strong setting, and some fun characters and dynamics. I am very impressed with how much world building he managed to accomplish in such a short book. In fact that's my one major complaint, I feel like it should have been longer. Some things feel very rushed, and I would have appreciated more character development. But it is a very good read. I would recommend to anyone looking for a fun, fast read.
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- Utenti
- 149
- Popolarità
- #139,413
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 21
That said, the story was marvelously spun through a myriad of viewpoints, both current and past, weaved into a fascinating and detailed landscape. The Labyrinth was wonderfully imagined, and easy to lose yourself in. The characters were fantastically realised and a combination of hate to love and love to hate that really worked so perfectly for the story. The magic system is complex, but relatively easy to understand, although the author hasn't gone into a great deal of detail up until this point; it seems to be broadly divided into human magic, elf(?) magic and higher magic.
It ended with a lot of open story lines and unanswered questions, so I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.… (altro)