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Tom Keller

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This series requires the worldbuilding from the first series to work properly which I haven't read.

This reads more like an attempt of writing a badass action movie full of nonchalant one-liners and general over-the-top badassery.
In my opinion, flashy action scenes which essentially play out like a fight choreography from an action movie just don't work in books. A book is a different medium and trying to imitate a high-octane action movie in a book always ends up falling flat because you can't cover up the sheer ridiculousness of these kinds of action sequences with visual fidelity in a book. It just ends up coming across as comically exaggerated and unbelievable.
Tension and awe are created in a fundamentally different way in a book.
A more obvious example of this kind of mistake (that doesn't happen in this book but illustrates my point well) would be if you tried to convey the proportions of a huge and complex building by describing a tracking shot step by step; Describing the camera moving very close to and at high speed along the facade doing swoops and dives through arches and along crests. This is how you convey scale in a movie. It's a purely visual tool that doesn't really work in a book. At best the reader recognizes it as the visual tool it is and extrapolates the meaning you are trying to convey. But this always comes across as clunky and amateurish. You won't find anything like this in well-written books.

Initially, when I realized that I was missing a whole bunch of world-building background I considered reading the other series but I have no interest in doing so anymore.
While I don't have the actual world-building background of this universe it's all built from generic UF building blocks I've read hundreds of times before so I didn't really need the background at all to understand what's going on.

All in all, I was not impressed.
It wasn't horrible but at no point was I invested or emotionally connected to any part of the story.
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omission | Oct 19, 2023 |
Not bad for a book about the fae, of which I'm no fan. The absolute beauty of the fae really gets on my nerves after a while. I like my characters to have flaws and interesting scars and glasses - you know, like real people. I got really annoyed by the way he "sealed the deal" with at least two different women (though only mentioned and entirely off page, the sex was highly unnecessary and gratuitous at best). I was impressed by Robert's coffee mug collection and rather envious. I don't drink coffee, but if I had the space I'd be collecting too.

The overall idea isn't bad and makes sense. How better to keep the money in the house than with magic in Las Vegas? Certainly not a bad story at all. I might read the next one in the series.
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fuzzipueo | 1 annan recension | Apr 24, 2022 |
Too much story and not enough editing. Choppy execution as if one book was planned and another added on the end because someone who does not know how to write thought it would be a good idea. Inconsistent characters who failed to enegage this reader. Will not be reading anymore of this series.
 
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Omegawega | 1 annan recension | Apr 1, 2018 |

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Verk
10
Medlemmar
84
Popularitet
#216,911
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
3
ISBN
10

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