The Rose of the World by Jude Fisher
Just to show you I'm no literary snob...a fantasy book.
The third book in the Fool's Gold Series. First two books were pretty good and both published within the last 4 yrs. Jude Fishers writing reminded me of Robin Hobb a lot. A bit lighter but nonetheless I enjoyed the epic writing.
But the Rose of the World...not quite as organized as the first 2 books. It's one of my complaints for serial fantasy/SCI-FI. I realize it's hard to keep all three (or more if it's larger than a trilogy) as exciting, as interesting as whatever book(s) are better. Especially when they are in the 600-1,000 page range. I always hope the endings will be satisfying and this one so far isn't.
I'm almost done with it, it has kept my interest in the last 24 hours. But there are problems with the writing. One might think implausibility but no, this is fantasy where all things within the rules of magic are plausible. What isn't hitting me right is the many, many threads which sometimes end without explanation for hundreds of pages. There are a lot of characters which I like normally, but some major characters meet unseemly ends while other minor characters reanimate for what looks like (at this point) no good reason. I'm sure the last 75 pages or so will explain some of it, but I anticipate some will be left dangling.
The Goddess, who is the Rose of the World is inconsistant in coming back to herself.
For someone to be a God she sure is afraid of one human who should be qualling in his boots just like all the others who's touched her. But for some unknown reason he turns her into a frail female...which even in her amnesia she never was.
Where the heck is Bete? Mam has turned into a romantic woman (she of he filed teeth) and that doesn't seem right. Thats the problem with this book, it's turned into some kind of romance thing. And really I hate romance books...hahah with a passion.
I guess the good thing is I bought the paperback. :-)
The third book in the Fool's Gold Series. First two books were pretty good and both published within the last 4 yrs. Jude Fishers writing reminded me of Robin Hobb a lot. A bit lighter but nonetheless I enjoyed the epic writing.
But the Rose of the World...not quite as organized as the first 2 books. It's one of my complaints for serial fantasy/SCI-FI. I realize it's hard to keep all three (or more if it's larger than a trilogy) as exciting, as interesting as whatever book(s) are better. Especially when they are in the 600-1,000 page range. I always hope the endings will be satisfying and this one so far isn't.
I'm almost done with it, it has kept my interest in the last 24 hours. But there are problems with the writing. One might think implausibility but no, this is fantasy where all things within the rules of magic are plausible. What isn't hitting me right is the many, many threads which sometimes end without explanation for hundreds of pages. There are a lot of characters which I like normally, but some major characters meet unseemly ends while other minor characters reanimate for what looks like (at this point) no good reason. I'm sure the last 75 pages or so will explain some of it, but I anticipate some will be left dangling.
The Goddess, who is the Rose of the World is inconsistant in coming back to herself.
For someone to be a God she sure is afraid of one human who should be qualling in his boots just like all the others who's touched her. But for some unknown reason he turns her into a frail female...which even in her amnesia she never was.
Where the heck is Bete? Mam has turned into a romantic woman (she of he filed teeth) and that doesn't seem right. Thats the problem with this book, it's turned into some kind of romance thing. And really I hate romance books...hahah with a passion.
I guess the good thing is I bought the paperback. :-)
posted by vivage @ 3/28/2006 11:50:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 12:07 AM,
vivage said…
I did end up finishing the book. Found Bete, Maw's boyfriend died but apparently came back to life (although it was never explained how cuz she was leaving to go meet him at the end of the book). The Goddess couldn't stand the touch of the one man cuz he was Death but apparently Death could never remember who he was as opposed to the other Gods who either forgot who they were or remembered the whole time.
Blah, blah, blah, happily ever after book. Tooooo romance for me. Grrrr.
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