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The Ten Thousand (2008)

by Paul Kearney(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1844165736 (ISBN13: 9781844165735)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Solaris

series

The Macht

review 1: Mr. Kearney writes quite a few lyrical passages. His descriptive prose is exceptional while generally not pulling me too far out of the story. Further, he writes clear action scenes. I could almost always figure out exactly what happened without any backtracking.He presents an entirely non-Earth world (hey, two moons!) and develops most of it nicely. I did not notice any horrible failures in the world building.His internal (omniscient) views were also quite good. I enjoyed being in the protagonist's head.I enjoyed most of his made-up words. They mixed well with largely Greek-inspired clothing and such. Would have been nice to know a pasang was a half-mile BEFORE reading the glossary.It seems rare to read a whole-new-world fantasy novel that doesn't include magic. T... morehat was refreshing, even if the Kefir race was presented as vaguely inhuman. The other races were more evenly described and feasible to me.So why only three stars in my overall rating? I didn't feel as wonderful about his character interactions. Some characters felt two-dimensional. Some of the plot felt forced. Without any end-spoilers, "Jason, c'mon, I need to drag you to one more scene!" Did any of you NOT know what was going to happen? That is an example of being too predictable, unlike how the whole book opens. I loved how I expected a bad end to the first scene but it turned out to just be the start. So he was uneven in this regard.I liked it enough to continue the series.
review 2: Le pongo cuatro estrellas fundamentalmente porque me parece que es un libro muy bien escrito. No obstante personalmente es un tres y es la nota que le pondré en el blog.Aunque como decía arriba todo está muy bien escrito sobre todo lo que está es muy bien descrito. Creo que se recrea demasiado en el mundo que ha creado y que pone el mundo por delante de la historia de los personajes, que es realmente lo que a mí me ha gustado de la novela.Por otra parte espero con ganas el día que este hombre haga algún personaje femenino que me guste porque telita.En cualquier caso fantasía histórica muy recomendable, con escenas bélicas increíblemente bien descritas. Una historia con cierto estilo 300 solo que sin los toques de humor (que he echado en falta la verdad). less

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