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Anarchy: A Novel (2013)

by James Treadwell(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1451661673 (ISBN13: 9781451661675)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Atria/Emily Bestler Books

series

Advent Trilogy

review 1: Note to author: Your characters and plot probably live with you every day. You know them intimately. We don't. I read the first in this series, Advent, about 2 years ago. I enjoyed it and remember the general plot and characters, but most certainly the world has turned in two years. So when I started to read Anarchy: A Novel and was confused, I figured that all would be revealed or I'd have that "aha!" moment later on. Well, it didn't happen. The best part of this book was the very first 100 pages or so about a Royal Canadian Mountie nicknamed Goose – a young woman who was far from home, now working in a remote village in British Columbia. (Even this backwater was experiencing the mystic upheaval that started in England.) But then the story shifted to a dark and plodding... more trek of Gavin's mother (who had an extremely minor role in the first book, as I recall) from London to Cornwall. I remember the way-too-sentient crow named Corbo from the first book – he/it has a minor role here. And Gavin/Gawain really doesn't appear until (I think) the end of this book. Even taken as a separate novel and not #2 in a series, this book was very unsatisfying. As well-drawn as the characters were, there were times when I didn't know who was "talking" (he-said, she-said attribution is outre these days). The scenes were evocative, but never complete. And with the sometimes main character, Goose, I could never presuppose her motivation or anticipate how she'd react. Far from being intriguing, this left me flat. I'd give this book a 3-1/2 for writing and 2 for enjoyment. I refuse to go back and reread a 400+ page book just so I can enjoy a sequel!
review 2: Another book I'm not sure what to make of. Guess that must make it "literature".Something has happened, not altogether sure what. "Magic is risen" it says on front cover. "Nothing is as it was before" it says on back. Set between Northern Vancouver Island and Cornwall, England. Descriptions of Northern Vancouver Island seem fairly accurate as I've been in area. Been in Cornwall, too, but not sure where this one's set. Maybe he made the area up based on visits to or pictures of general vicinity.The characters are mostly women and/or girls designed not so much to be well-rounded as soap operatic. One's a naiad or something similar. (Probably not a Selkie, as no mention of Seal Skin.) Another seems to be a dryad. One boy can apparently change into his totem. He's English, his totem's an Orca. He, as it, can travel between space because the female Mountie figures this out next door to right away. (It is kind of obvious, but very little's done with it.) The genre seems to be "just what the heck's going on now that the Plague's arrived and it's wiped out the Internet, among other things". If the result's the titular Anarchy, it's not very lively. I'm pretty sure Cernunnos makes an appearance because there's a big stag man. The issue of virginity comes up as well, very medieval, perhaps even Biblical.I suspect it's the second book in the Advent Trilogy because it says so on the spine. Plus the author also wrote a book called Advent. Not sure I'll be buying either Books One or Two because reading any more books where not much happens despite taking over 400 pages to get there does not appeal. less

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