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The Ragged Man (2010)

by Tom Lloyd(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0575085584 (ISBN13: 9780575085589)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Gollancz

series

Twilight Reign

review 1: Lloyd continues his detailed action filled format where powerful yet flawed 'anti-heroes' stalk the pages leaving the reader constantly shifting alliances. The Ragged Man takes up immediately after the shattering conclusion of The Grave Thief. The 'What has gone before', and invaluable opening to all Lloyd's novels. As in the previous novels, Lloyd spins a complex web of intregue that captures the reader within there own ideas and assumptions, before jerking the strands together in the final pages to reveal his jaw dropping conclusion. Fans of the earlier books will be thrilled with this latest instalment in the Twilight Reign.
review 2: I felt about the same with this book as I did with the last one. This series has so much unused potential that it drives me c... morerazy! The setting is potentially awesome, so many of the characters are set up to be really interesting (if they ever did anything noteworthy), and the plot crawls when it could tear away from the rest of the crowd and be miles ahead. But it doesn't. Instead it's just okay.It needs more explanation of the important stuff and way less of what is just fluff. I don't know what more to say about it. See my reviews of the other books in the series, I guess.I also don't know why I keep reading the series. I keep hoping in vain that the author's style will suddenly change to suit me better. Maybe that's what it comes down to--a great idea and set up, but an author's style that is simply not what I look for or find completely satisfying. less

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