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janeharriet's review against another edition
3.0
I don't feel qualified to review this book. Is it a five-star book because its good parts are great? Or a two-star book because its profusion of locations and characters and points of view and threads of story are so fucking confusing and tangled that finding those good parts was, for me, an exercise in tooth-gritting endurance? I don't know. I seriously have no idea.
jimmer's review
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
fastasashark's review
medium-paced
3.5
The quality of The Fell Sword dropped a bit compared to The Red Knight. In the Red Knight I thought Cameron did a great job at balancing all the different POVs without letting them get out of hand or hinder the story. But I have to admit the first half of The Fell Sword just didn't flow as well for me, and it felt like just too many POVs switching around too often to set up the second half of the book. Plus there was way too little of the Red Knight and his mercenaries.
That said, I think the second half of the Fell Sword was very good and fixed a lot of what I didn't like in the first half. Cameron found a better balance as all the POVs came together to make a more complete picture.
I also have to say I really loved the Yule climax of Part 2: The Winter War. Tapio's hall of N'gara was especially awesome and I'm now super liking the irks. Also Bill's elk 😁 Overall loving the mystical creatures and beings emerging more since the end of the last book.
Overall enjoying the series and will be continuing it.
That said, I think the second half of the Fell Sword was very good and fixed a lot of what I didn't like in the first half. Cameron found a better balance as all the POVs came together to make a more complete picture.
I also have to say I really loved the Yule climax of Part 2: The Winter War. Tapio's hall of N'gara was especially awesome and I'm now super liking the irks. Also Bill's elk 😁 Overall loving the mystical creatures and beings emerging more since the end of the last book.
Overall enjoying the series and will be continuing it.
kittyg's review
4.0
I finally got around to reading this book, just before the third one in the series came out. I loved the first in this series and this one was also really, really good but the focus of this one shifted a little more towards men fighting each other whilst the first was mostly about the men fighting the Wild and the creatures and beasts that live there.
This plot is once again following many of the same characters and you have to admire the fact that Cameron can develop fight scenes so that they keep me interested. I still can't say I am a huge fan of big, large-scale fight scenes, but Cameron is the best writer that I have ever come across in that regard. I do love the fact that he can weave everything and all sorts of creatures, races and people together into large, complex and ever-interesting plot.
As always I did really enjoy seeing the evolution of the Red Knight, discovering more of his secrets and also finding out a lot more of his past. I have to say that his ongoing inner turmoil was very fascinating to see too because of how interlinked it was with the magic.
I also really enjoyed meeting Mortirmir, a young student who is very intelligent and filled with all the knowledge but none of the magic to carry out the spells and enchantments he knows. Yet his story is still interesting and he becomes involved in a major way with the overall battles, plots and scheming of various characters.
We also have more of Amicia (a powerful nun) and Desiderata (a Queen), some of my favourite females because they're strong when they need to be, but equally they have weaknesses and fears and they show these too, when they can. I like to get a feeling that the female and male characters are on a level playing ground in terms of the characterisation and I think that Miles Cameron does that.
Harmodius, Thorn and the creatures of the Wild are all also very exciting to read about. We have bad guys, good guys and morally ambiguous guys and we're following the way that they use their magics, control their followers and make decisions that will rock the fate of many battles. I do think that Harmodius and thorn in particular are pivotal characters on opposing sides.
I also loved getting to see more of the young boy Peter as part of the Sossag because their culture truly fascinates and bemuses me. I love that Miles has been able to weave in so many varieties of creature, race and custom, it makes for a thoroughly engaging read once again.
Overall I did really really like this book and although it was a little less about the wild (which I find extremely suspicious and creepy) I do love the plot and character development and I think it finished up in a way that the third book will be captivating also (I plan to read that very soon!) A solid 4.5*s again
This plot is once again following many of the same characters and you have to admire the fact that Cameron can develop fight scenes so that they keep me interested. I still can't say I am a huge fan of big, large-scale fight scenes, but Cameron is the best writer that I have ever come across in that regard. I do love the fact that he can weave everything and all sorts of creatures, races and people together into large, complex and ever-interesting plot.
As always I did really enjoy seeing the evolution of the Red Knight, discovering more of his secrets and also finding out a lot more of his past. I have to say that his ongoing inner turmoil was very fascinating to see too because of how interlinked it was with the magic.
I also really enjoyed meeting Mortirmir, a young student who is very intelligent and filled with all the knowledge but none of the magic to carry out the spells and enchantments he knows. Yet his story is still interesting and he becomes involved in a major way with the overall battles, plots and scheming of various characters.
We also have more of Amicia (a powerful nun) and Desiderata (a Queen), some of my favourite females because they're strong when they need to be, but equally they have weaknesses and fears and they show these too, when they can. I like to get a feeling that the female and male characters are on a level playing ground in terms of the characterisation and I think that Miles Cameron does that.
Harmodius, Thorn and the creatures of the Wild are all also very exciting to read about. We have bad guys, good guys and morally ambiguous guys and we're following the way that they use their magics, control their followers and make decisions that will rock the fate of many battles. I do think that Harmodius and thorn in particular are pivotal characters on opposing sides.
I also loved getting to see more of the young boy Peter as part of the Sossag because their culture truly fascinates and bemuses me. I love that Miles has been able to weave in so many varieties of creature, race and custom, it makes for a thoroughly engaging read once again.
Overall I did really really like this book and although it was a little less about the wild (which I find extremely suspicious and creepy) I do love the plot and character development and I think it finished up in a way that the third book will be captivating also (I plan to read that very soon!) A solid 4.5*s again
razgon's review
3.0
I cant decide whether this is a 4 or 3 star book. It has all the great storytelling of the first, but also felt slightly...boring, since nothing was ever really dangerous. Well written, and great story, but the first book was clearly better.
lis_'s review
5.0
What a wonderful, exciting and intense (like really intense) read...
I love the characters...
I love the world...
I love the battles...
I love the Magic...
I love the characters...
I love the world...
I love the battles...
I love the Magic...