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“Kay is one of fantasy's gretest writers if not one of its most well known”
“As much as I love this author, in this book, he tried to throw too much at the reader too quickly. There were too many "main characters" to keep track of - so that you didn't really care about any of them. There were brief moments of brilliance, but were quickly drowned in a sea of exposition. It gets better near the end, but I'm still not sure why I bothered to finish it. Ick.”
“My only regret is that I'll never read it again for the first time.”
“I had been dying to read this trilogy for months when I finally picked it up. Sadly, as much as I tried to get through it, the only way that I could make it to the next chapter was by taking a red pen and changing his sentences. It seems to me that Kay either had a really bad editor or none at all.It's not the topic itself-- the concepts and ideas Kay presents are intriguing. Because of this fact I get why many people love this trilogy-- what they don't realize is just because you love fantasy doesn't mean you have to suffer through bad writing. I have a background in literature and writing, and being a writer myself, I found it unfortunate that he didn't reflect more on his composition choices. Choices such as repeatedly using a character's last name, every other time we read about his/her exploits, gets old. Another bad choice he makes is inserting the word "though" and "yet" in spots where it does not grammatically make sense.Therefore, if you happen to be at all picky about sentence construction, you might want to pass this up, because his repetitive sloppiness in his writing will leave you ready to tear the pages out. ”