While I was reading and posting messages in old Amazon's Fantasy & Sci-fi Board, I've crossed several threads discussing The Amber's Saga. With this appetizer I was ready to start catching up with the Saga, but they were ten volumes to pursue. So I postpone the project for future examination. Then I saw The Great Book of Amber containing the whole Saga, and couldn't resist the temptation.

So I proceed to read and enjoy each story and I will review them one by one.
Nine Princes in Amber is a very good introduction to the whole Saga.
Corwin awakes with total amnesia. He, and the reader, start a discovery trip from our everyday world to an infinite wide and mysterious Universe. Clues and glimpses are unveiled step by step keeping the reader hooked and wondering what's next.

The bases of the present and future conflicts are shown: the Royal family of Amber, their loves and hatreds, the competition, alliances and treasons among them; Amber is the real world and the rest, including our Earth, as shadow worlds partially reflecting the glory of Amber (a very Platonic construction by the way).

Zelazny writes with unusual wit, following a stile resembling the old Arcturian Chronicles, presenting interlacing stories within the main body of the novel.

Rich, visual, poetic and ... full of action.
It is a very enjoyable first step!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.