| Re: The Riftwar Saga, Disappointing?
The Magician is the first novel I ever read, way back when I was 8, and I found it very difficult at the time. Its simplistic style made it easier but it wasn't until I re-read it two years later that I fully understood it.
Quite surprisingly, despite the volume of novels I trawled through at the time, it has always remained my favorite novel, and to call it unrealistic would be grossly inaccurate. I am a fan of realistic fantasy above all, which has steered me off the course of David Eddings and Robert Jordan (rather towards David Gemmel), and I fell in love with the level of realism, backstory and good handling of the supernatural (where most amature fantasy authors fail).
"they called these invaders by their name for themselves"
Well they did capture someone before the war even started who allowed them to understand who they were. |