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Młot (2014)

by K.J. Parker(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

MAG

review 1: Another excellent one by KJ Parker- it takes the usual elements (morally grey characters, lots of plotting, and a well-developed setting that stays in the background except for where the plot is important), and sets it up on a plot of revenge. The Hammer is more of a slow burn than the others, but once the plot is in motion it comes down all at once and hits hard. I really appreciated how the motivations where set up, and while it was easy to tell the general idea of what event traumatized Gig so heavily, the specifics came as a total surprise that I can honestly say shocked me.Another thing about this book- if you've read other KJ Parker books, you'll notice this one ties the setting together for certain. It's a few hundred years after The Engineer Trilogy, from the sound... more of things, but where it stands in relation to the Folding Knife is hard to tell. It's nice to have references to the setting that aren't laid on heavily, just there to give readers something to catch.
review 2: Someone needs to penetrate Parker's pseudonym, I would hate to think she is writing under another name as well and I am missing some of her books. When reading Parker you know a couple things. The world will be gritty and violent, at least one, maybe more of the characters have a nasty plan going, and a few hidden gems will make you laugh and then feel guilty about it. The Hammer starts with a lot of time pressed into a short section. A few years before IT happened, where we get some back ground, a short time around IT, where we find a little more background, and then the rest of the book happens after IT. Of course, whatever IT is drives the whole story, but the reader won't learn until much later just what happened. It is a great setup, and it had me guessing most the book just what the hell happened.Another completely original world set up(though there are hints that many of Parker's stories are on the same world), more great characters(as long as you realize that Parker will have a chess-master/Mary Sue trope in most of her stories, she writes them very well). And while I am hardly one to comment on prose, Parker is deceptively easy to read, while using language that I often find my self rereading only because it is particularly interesting/intellegent. less

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