Peter Last
Autore di Guardians of Magessa (The Birthright Chronicles, #1)
Opere di Peter Last
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- 6
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- 32
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- #430,838
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- 3.3
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- 2
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- 8
Some of it is also derivative: there is a whole section explaining the religion of the protagonists which is a direct copy of the story of Moses and the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt. There is a strong Christian influence in this book: lots of references to Elohim, a lot of prayer, even a bit of creationism: the general message is Christian propaganda.
150 pages are devoted to one battle before the next one begins.
The writing is too detailed in places as the reader does not need to know every movement of every character i.e. he walked down the stairs, he grabbed the door knob, he opened the door etc..
The English suffers in places: “counsel” for “council”, sentences ending in prepositions, “got beat” instead of “got beaten” and so on. In a fantasy story, addressing one’s colleagues as “Guys” seems out of place as is the expression “blowing my mind”. Putting a Red Cross outside of a makeshift hospital seems incongruous in this context.
My wife started to read this – and she reads more fantasy than I do – and gave up a quarter way through. Having just read the latest by Robin Hobb, I found this book far less engaging. The author states that he started this when he was 11 years old and sometimes it shows.
Disappointing and not recommended.
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