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kaigairg's review
4.0
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_krulik_ambersourcebook.html
ianbanks's review
4.0
A very thorough guide to one of the great fantasy series. It's set out like an encyclopaedia and fleshes out details sparsely given in the original novels through a judicious use of conjecture and speculation (or just simple "making shit up").
It begins with the conceit that this is a guide written by a member of the Amber nobility and this is carried all the way through (and if you dip into it -instead of reading it cover-to-cover as I did - it probably comes over a little less twee than it sounds). There's a lot of detail here (sheet music and a guide to speaking Thari) but, in the absence of some sort of authorial blessing in the acknowledgments it's hard to tell how authentic it really is. However, the summary of events from the books provides a wonderful recap if you - like me - get a little baffled and bothered by who's currently allied with whom as the series goes on (the Merlin books are particularly guilty of this).
I would call this one of the better sourcebooks that are out there. For any series.