Pretty emphatically not my cup of tea.Ĭhanga’s Safari by Milton J. The mix of evil vibes and “but we’re misunderstood” felt like I was reading a propaganda video, or at a time meeting for Dr Evil. I think trying to layer personality and sympathetic motivation onto Tolkien’s force of nature objective evil that looms over the struggles of the protagonists was a decision that, in hindsight, I’d have avoided as trying to put a house on a weak foundation. There was really no getting past that for me. She’s not quite as natural at that thick, archaic-esque prose as Tolkien, and it works a lot better on descriptions of the natural world than long conversations. I had a decent idea of what I was getting into – a riffing of LotR from the evil side – but what told me was that Carey was aiming for a similar place with the prose too. Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey: I picked this up a while back in a second hand bookshop as a big fan of Carey’s first two Kushiel series.
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