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The Alchemist And The Executioness (2010)

by Paolo Bacigalupi(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Audible Frontiers

review 1: Paolo Bacigalupi has recently become one of my favorite authors. He creates this magnificent worlds that full of magic and wonder and so very well developed. I was little unsure of this story with an additional author unknown to me (sorry Tobias Buckell). But I shouldn't have worried. This are two beautiful interlinked stories and I fell in love with all the characters (although I have to admit that I was quite upset to leave the Alchemist and move to the Executioness). The sentences were just beautiful in these stories. If I had been reading a physical book, I would have stopped more than once to marvel over their composition. Jonathan Davis and Katherine Kellgren were wonderful narrators (as usual).
review 2: The Executioness was a 4-star story -- I really ... moreappreciated the main character, and while the plot was nothing new, it was solid and interesting. The Alchemist, much as I like Bacigalupi, was only a 2-star story. It was far too formulaic and trite. The common world is interesting, and I'd be willing to read future stories set there, but over all these were a bit weak (though probably good for newer fantasy readers). less

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