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The Sword Of Sighs (2013)

by Greg James(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Manderghast Press

series

The Age of the Flame

review 1: Sarah Bean is an average teenager who is plagued by dreams of her death at the hands of magical creatures in a mythical realm. When she tries to escape from a gang of bullies by hiding in an abandoned fun fair, she finds herself transported to another world. Isolated from everyone and everything she ever knew, Sarah must come to terms with her fate if she is to accept the strange destiny that is laid out before her.I'll get right to the point. Sword of Sighs is one of the best Young Adult fantasy novels I have ever read. Greg James brings both his locations and characters to life with wonderful, descriptive prose perfectly balanced with a pulsating, relentless plot. All of the people that occupy the novel are three dimensional, with clear motivations, hopes and doubts that... more really draw the reader into the tale.The mythology and backstory in Sword of Sighs is a combination of various well travelled fantasy tropes, combined with a mixture of quite a few different mythologies, such as Celtic, Norse and Russian (to name a few). The world that James creates is drip fed to the reader, rather than it being forced down their throats in large chunks of exposition, which is refreshing in itself. If I was to have any criticism of the novel at all, it is that perhaps the parallels to Lord of the Rings are a little strong at times, with the Fallen Born being more than a little similar to Tolkien's Nazguul, and indeed, there is one scene near the end of the book that borrows rather heavily from an iconic scene in Tolkiens classic.That is not to say that Sword of Sigh's is simply a retread of existing fantasy ground. Greg James does more than enough to make the world(s) that he has created his own, and with enough twists and turns to make even the most jaded fantasy reader sit up and take notice. I honestly can't wait for the next book in the series to be released.
review 2: um i got about 30% through i couldn't finish. Either A) i am not feeling it right nowB) its was sort of confusing to say the least because i) i thought she was already 16 at the beginning but apparently she wasn't ii) time passage was like no big deal - three years on a different world that was not her own and hey no big deal...yeah no that is a big deal iii) random ass POV shift iv) references that arent being explainedHonestly? maybe i am just not in the mood for a super fantasy right now but i was really confused and again maybe its all me, if you are looking for real hard-core fantasy sure give it a shot, the first few chapters really drew me in but then there was this moment she goes to a new, new world and three years have passed? i don't think i am okay with that... don't know why maybe its because she was just left there by the person that i think was suppose to be helping her? well i don't know because sadly i gives up....i might come back to this later and try to finish it when i am in a more fantasy mood. less

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