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The Falcon Throne (2014)

by Karen Miller(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1841499595 (ISBN13: 9781841499598)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Orbit

series

The Tarnished Crown Quintet

review 1: I was really looking forward to this book, since I had read several of the authors other books, both under her own name and her pen name, K. E. Mills. She always struck me as an author who had a great grasp of making vivid, realistic characters you could sympathize with, even the villains. In fact, I think she writes some of the best villains in fantasy today. Anyway, I went in with high expectations. Not only were they met, they were shattered. This is an incredibly well written book, and is one of the best books I have ever read, of any genre, period. The story is expansive, set in a well developed world. The characters jump off the page, dragging you in with them. The villains are some of the best I've ever seen on the page, but they are doing the things they do for wha... moret seem legitimate reasons, and it's hard not to sympathize just a little. The protagonists are flawed, realistic characters, with realistic motivations. This is a gritty, hard hitting book, with well done action and battle scenes, political intrigue and family backstabbing. Any fans of Mark Lawrence, Jeff Salyards and Anthony Ryan will like this book. I recommend this book to all my friends and I recommend you try it too.
review 2: Some will love it, some will not. It doesn't give you the Game of Thrones experience it is marketed as which is unfortunate as this did raise my expectations quite a bit. If you like your formulaic fantasy with lots of swear words then you will no doubt appreciate this book. Not enough happened to keep me interested and I didn't care enough about the characters to feel anything much when they were killed off. It all seems a little like 'I've been here before ... many times'. If it is your first foray into Fantasy as a genre, or if you don't want to read anything terribly different from everything that has come before, then you will probably enjoy it. For me it didn't hit the mark.JustineReader Development Librarian less

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