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Żelazny Anioł (2009)

by Alan Campbell(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

MAG

series

Deepgate Codex

review 1: Despite my ambivalence towards the first book, the end intrigued me just enough that I decided to continue on to the second. I really shouldn't have bothered. This book has the same problems as the first, only worse. One-dimensional worldbuilding, distracting prose, extraneous character POVs, and horrible pacing. The concept of Hell is really fascinating, and it's too bad that the author squandered it. The only characters I felt even a little invested in were 1)John Anchor 2)the Heshette leader whose name I can't recall and 3)Hasp. All that is bad enough on its own, I could've managed just boredom fine. But this book made me uncomfortable. For one, Caulker, an unabashed racist who has no reason to be in the story past the first couple of chapters, has several POV chapters ... morewhere we get to spend time in his head with his lovely opinions about the Heshette and their lack of humanity. And then there's Alice Harper, whose casual misogynistic treatment by others just... Ugh, I honestly would've stopped reading there and then if I wasn't so close to finishing. I suppose the author felt the need to be EVEN ~EDGIER~, and the best (i.e. laziest) way to achieve that is obviously through racism and misogyny. It's not particularly egregious for the fantasy genre (unfortunately, that's not a high bar), but it pushed an already subpar book into the territory of awful for me.
review 2: I started with this book not realizing that it was the 2nd book in the series. It was a bit of a rough start, but made for very interesting reading. Thoughout the book you discover things that happened in the previous book, so I don't feel like I missed much.As for the actual content, it was great! Gods, souls, demons, angels, swords, battle, bloodshed, female protagonist. Good times. The only thing that turned me off at first was the fact that it seemed like I was thrown in the middle of a story, and that's because I was. I don't quite know why I'm not giving it 5 stars, but I really liked this book less

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