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Tome Of The Undergates (2010)

by Sam Sykes(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0575090286 (ISBN13: 9780575090286)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Victor Gollancz Science Fiction

series

Aeons' Gate

review 1: I struggled a bit with this book, I found it slow going and a bit dull. There were a lot of fighting scenes, in fact the first 200 pages are pretty much non stop fighting scenes on the same boat but with no real reason as to why or any plot behind it. I only really bonded with Kataria the Shict, the rest of the characters including the main character were dull and uninteresting and barely interacted except to express their hate and distaste for one another which got boring very quickly. The idea of the band of adventurers was nice and could have read like a game of Dungeons and Dragons had the story been better written but it just didn't grip me in the same way. I wouldn't read it again I don't think.
review 2: It took me a while to get into the style of this b... moreook and I have a couple of "technical complaints" - but then the part of me which *isn't* a stuck-up writer takes over and slaps me cold upside the head. This book was FUN, pure and simple. It read like an excellently run D&D campaign with all manner of other complications and surprising depth towards the end. I will read more of Sykes, and he sky-rockets up the list of 'authors I'd really like to hang out with'. less

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