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| ParanoidObsessive 04/07/19 5:00:20 PM #93: | WhiskeyDisk posted... I actually jumped over to Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself as a bit of a pallette cleanser. I'm about 2/3 of the way through but it's been a busy week. I read that. But I sort of lump that in with A Crown for Cold Silver as books that feel like they tried to emulate the dark fantasy flavor of George RR Martin and kind of missed what made it work, and instead went all-in on the cynicism and doing terrible things to the characters. It's very much "look how dark and edgy we are!" I of all people love some dark tragic cynicism, but you have to earn your tragedy. It feels like too many of the imitators kind of skip right over that directly to murdering and torturing characters because that's what Martin did and people seemed to like that. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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