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Steles Of The Sky (2014)

by Elizabeth Bear(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0765327562 (ISBN13: 9780765327567)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Eternal Sky

review 1: All wind up, no pitch. We spend several hundred pages wandering fruitlessly in the desert, but she's spun her story too wide, and, by the end, whole characters and plot lines are simply dropped in a frantic attempt to wrap up the main plot, which is....perhaps never clear while somehow also being blindingly obvious. Certainly Bear does nothing with the literal scores of characters she spent hundreds of pages building up; in the end, with few exceptions, nothing of the characters come through, and we might as well be watching mannequins in the finale, like a western or a superhero story. Not a satisfying ending or a particular worthwhile journey to that ending, which is bitter to me, as a reader. I am losing some faith in her ability to just finish a goddamn storyline witho... moreut spinning it ever larger & larger (see also: Dust to Chill to Grail)
review 2: As often happens when I follow a series as it gets published, I find I have to reread the previous books to remember important details. With Bear's writing it's a pleasure. Her world development is clear and and believable, especially the mechanics of magic. As this book reflexes many cultures you will recognize from the real work you might think it would be a dull 'what if' historical fantasy but it's very original with many unusual creatures along with the more traditional. I became very invested in many of the character's fates, finding it hard to stop reading. less

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