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Pád Vážky (2009)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Zoner Press

series

Shadows of the Apt

review 1: Fun. The idea is fun and it reads well enough. Villains are complex and/or interesting (some are a bit one dimensional, but never dull).Annoying. The author really, really wanted to see one character face off against his love interest, so he pushed and prodded until that was the only possible outcome. He also wanted one of the villains to be important enough to kill but not actually get killed. I was Invested in this character, and wanted to see him killed well (he is vile, but interesting and complicated and maybe my favourite part of this book), or at least given a chance to grow realistically. Alas, the number of attempts made on his life lowered the stakes for me until I was no longer invested at all. Both plotlines felt contrived.I read the first book in this series a... more year ago. Maybe I'll pick the next one up in a year.
review 2: I have a bookmark still lodged in this page, many months after reading this for the first time. This takes me to a fight scene which sticks in the mind as a classic. It starts on P228 on my edition, for reference. It seems to have sprang more or less from nowhere at the time, but as you go on, the more you realise how life-changing this turns out to be for Tisamon, hard-as-nails even for a Mantis-Kinden. When you talk about someone meeting their match, this is it, right here, in more senses than you think. And it introduces a character I have to say, I really liked, and straight away needed to know more about.I don’t want anyone thinking that was the only thing I liked about Dragonfly Falling. Far from it, in fact. Close to 700 pages thick, it’s a chunky book, this one, but there is a hell of a lot going on, as those in from part 1 will well believe. The Wasp army are on the march, and a more appropriately named bunch of antagonists you will be hard-pushed to find. You might have guessed, I’m not a fan of wasps. But Wasp-Kinden are a relentless war machine, built for war. The parallels are there for all to see.My favourite chap from Book One, Thalric, just impresses me further with his character development, but the band of heroes from the first tale show a more mature, war-weary side from here in and grow in both stature and plot themselves, as twists and turns avail themselves frequently.But in this case, what captured my attention in the plot more than anything, was the feeling I had as we follow war continuing to shape technologies which prove pivotal to the shape of the map. There’s a real air of tragedy about it too, but by no means despair. I enjoyed reading this immensely, and was ready for part 3 straight away. less

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