authortedcross 's review for:

Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe

3.0

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It started off as a four star book. The prose is nice and though I'm not much into stories about torturers, this one didn't focus on the job the character did. The problem is that the author later let the story degenerate into the standard Alice-in-Wonderland-style surrealism that I can't stand, basically making the story simply about one random-seeming encounter after another, each with the idea of being 'strange and wondrous', when what I like in stories is that they be realistic.