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Worldsoul (2012)

by Liz Williams(Favorite Author)

3.07 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1607012952 (ISBN13: 9781607012955)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Prime Books

series

Worldsoul

review 1: 3 and a half stars. not particularly masterful in the follow-through - but the concept is very nice (the cover hook is "what if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world?", and the jumble of cultures and tropes is exotic and well-grounded) , it has many pleasures (far future, time travel, various types of magic, constructed storyways as paths that can be followed, a delirious mix of fairy tale archetypes) and was altogether colourful and entertaining. and it's full of writer metaphors in which writing, and finding the roots of story, are powerful and worldchanging endeavours. good characters, and a combination of sf and fantasy sf, which you don't see every day. ending a bit anticlimatic - one of those in media res things - but the next volume may be in t... morerain.
review 2: I really wanted to like this book. Who wouldn't love adventurous, sword-wielding librarians and quirky cities built on myth? I'm not sure whether I was expecting this book to be something it is not, or whether the execution simply fell short. There were so many ideas and so much potential, but it feels like almost none of it was used. In the end, I only had a vague idea of who everyone was and what exactly was happening. Also did we ever find out what was going on with the flower attacks? less

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