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The Kings Of Eternity (2011)

by Eric Brown(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1907519718 (ISBN13: 9781907519710)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Solaris

review 1: A reclusive writer living on a Greek island in 1999 falls in love with the painter who has moved in next to him, but is still reluctant to reveal himself. Four friends in 1935 meet at the country home of one of them and in the woods nearby witness the opening of a portal from another world and rescue the creature which comes through it. The link between the two narratives is not difficult to guess, but that doesn't spoil any enjoyment this novel might have. The narrative set on the Greek island has a somewhat Fowlesian feel to it, though perhaps a little more sentimental than Fowles ever wrote. The other narrative is Wellsian, though it uses Wellsian types tropes with the sophistication of a twenty-first century sf writer. Is this Brown's best novel? Hard to say. I still l... moreike Kéthani a lot, and any feelings of familiarity I might get from The Kings of Eternity is likely a result of reading the novella on which it was based, 'The Blue Portal', some years ago. It's certainly a very good novel, however.
review 2: I found this book on the new sci-fi shelves of Barnes and Noble, and I was intrigued, because it didn't seem to be your typical scifi. I've also been looking for books that treat time travel in some way, although this one didn't exactly. While I enjoyed it, I didn't adore it. It felt a little bit more like a short story than a novel to me, even though it was long. But I don't mean that as an insult. I haven't fully processed it yet, to be able to explain that impression. The main protagonist was a man (and the author is obviously a man) and even though I don't mind books with a male POV, this book felt very "male" to me. Not a raging testosterone male, just male and I feel like maybe that kept me at a distance somehow. It had an interesting premise - and I liked the fact that the main character was a writer! And I loved the settings in Greece and England. less

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