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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
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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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Chap
Oh take my heart, I wasn't using it anyway. *quiet sniffling in the corner*
danidoc
Full review to be pubished in April 2014 issue of RT BOOK Reviews magazine.
Fonda
Does everything we needed it to do. And then some.
Mikachu
Just wonderful. Original and refreshing.
IaMnEmIsIs
Great ending to the trilogy.
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