The story seems set up as a quest/mystery, but the narrative voice is more concerned with the rather forced romance between the two viewpoint characters.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Review
Also known as: how to shut up, fit in, and get by – using corporate doublespeak to deceive others, accomplish nothing, and never rock the boat.
Guards! Guards! Review
I really want you to think of this less as a review for a specific Pratchett novel - Guards! Guards! - and more as a reminder to come back to Discworld every now and then.
Chronicles Review
Chronicles is to Kings what The Lord of the Rings books are to the movies - different interpretations with different emphases, but ultimately telling the same story.
Aurora Review
It disappointed all my expectations in a thoroughly pessimistic reinterpretation of core science fiction genre tropes adorned by mediocre prose and little in the way of creativity.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice Review
It is the combination of an unsympathetic narrator, no meaningful plot progression, unremarkable rhetoric, and unserious approach which led me to abandon the text. I’m not certain why it’s received so much praise and attention, other than the controversies it stirs.
The Maya Myths Review
Matsumoto's retellings of Maya mythological stories are more like plot summaries than any effort to really capture the feel and emotional context of the myths and stories involved. If writing down an oral story robs it of life, she gives us only the bones, not even the full corpse.
We Review
We effectively captures that sensing of creeping dread which accompanies the gradual erosion of the individual into a single United State. After being oppressed by both the Tsarist and Soviet regime, Zamyatin knew tyranny from both sides of the circle.
The Narrow Road Between Desires Review
What’s missing from The Narrow Road Between Desires is not conflict, or higher stakes, but a point. It never gives the reader an answer to the question “why am I reading this story?”
Avtandil’s Quest Review
If you were intrigued by my review for The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, but struggled with reading English translations of Rustavelian quatrains, Buell’s retelling is an excellent opportunity to approach the story in a different way.
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