Nicholas Eames
Autore di Kings of the Wyld
Serie
Opere di Nicholas Eames
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 19??
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 2,138
- Popolarità
- #12,036
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 89
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 5
I think part of the fault in this book not living up to its predecessor's standard lies in the choice of narrator. While I understand Eames' choice here, Tam Hashford isn't as dynamic or sympathetic or Clay Cooper; more problematically for the reader, she just doesn't have as much struggle and depth. This isn't to say that she doesn't struggle in the book, as any good narrator would, but we don't feel the depth of her emotions or her want. We don't feel her being torn in different directions like we did with Clay Cooper, and the truth is that we're more tied to the people around her, at least emotionally, than we are to her. Or, at least, this was my experience. As much as I liked the idea, going into the book, of being tied to a young bard, her being the band's objective witness was just a bit too objective, and it didn't really feel like the book earned her end-point.
I'll still look forward to Eames' next book, but this one didn't have the same impact as the first book in the series, and since I thought the story and the writing and the humor were all as fantastic as before, I keep coming back to the narrator and how unconnected I felt emotionally. This might have been a stand-out book if not for the high standard set for the first, though.
Recommended for fans of the first in the series, though with the caveat that this one doesn't live up to the first.… (altro)