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The Vorrh by Brian Catling

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grayjay's review against another edition

3.0

Disenfranchised angels, a cyclops who wants to be a human, the two women who love him, a mad-phychologist and a mad-photographer, all under the looming presence of a magical forest in Africa. What a strange book! It nestles uncomfortably between fantasy and science fiction while pointing its compass decidedly toward the weird. At times boring and at other times fascinating, it's a hard book to give a personal review of.

dog_in_tie's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

jstrahan's review against another edition

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5.0

This trilogy is my favourite ever. Spirituality, art history, colonialist fascism and a cyclops all collide in a big fantasy forest. The whole trilogy feels like a lyrical, epic poem, mixing real historical figures into a surreal fantasy. Can’t recommend all three enough.

dataylor's review against another edition

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Not a fan of writing style or characters.

pseudomass's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

hieronymusbotched's review against another edition

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I'd rate this with the usual number of stars but it would genuinely change page by page.

I think genre might have done this one a disservice (being broken up into a trilogy) by not releasing as a single, massive volume as this book slightly suffers from Oryx and Crake syndrome: the main story arguably only progresses on the last five pages. Besides, there are so many threads, characters, and subplots that I genuinely couldn't tell you if there's a (proper noun) Protagonist or if that's even a problem.

All of which is me saying wait for the final book to release then read them all in a row, unless you thought Pinocchio should have been a trilogy, too, and you're happy for Episode 1 to just be a slow pan of his father shaving off the exposition.

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