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Blood Song
by Anthony Ryan
The main reasons, why I picked this book up, were the high Goodreads rating and the many comparisons of it being quite similar to Patrick Rothfuss’ Name of the Wind. They're both epic fantasy coming-of-age stories with overly talented, yet hard-working main characters, but I find that the broad similarities end there, but it really has been a while since I read Name Of The Wind, so I might be mistaken.
This is one of the books, that does the circular plot pattern quite well. Only in the last few chapters did I find myself thinking "Wow I kind of know, what happens next". And the ending did leave me on the hook for the next one. Generally it was really fun to follow, and even though cliché moments were aplenty, the book did manage to surprise me from time to time.
It is quite evident, that the author has studied history, especially in the battle and equipment cases, which puts it quite well in the high-fantasy shelf.
The whole book is quite dark and gritty, especially anything involving battles and war. But there's a good reason for it, since in the author's words:
A lot of reviews mention general lack of punctuation and it's definitely true if you pay attention to it. For me, the plot was enough to draw attention away from the punctuation and grammar mistakes, so I'll just choose to believe, that the historian Lord Verniers Alishe Someren was simply not found of punctuation.
I'll be sure to grab and read the remaining two books, whenever I see them on sale.
This is one of the books, that does the circular plot pattern quite well. Only in the last few chapters did I find myself thinking "Wow I kind of know, what happens next". And the ending did leave me on the hook for the next one. Generally it was really fun to follow, and even though cliché moments were aplenty, the book did manage to surprise me from time to time.
It is quite evident, that the author has studied history, especially in the battle and equipment cases, which puts it quite well in the high-fantasy shelf.
The whole book is quite dark and gritty, especially anything involving battles and war. But there's a good reason for it, since in the author's words:
War is blood and shit… There’s no honour in it, Makril’s words.
A lot of reviews mention general lack of punctuation and it's definitely true if you pay attention to it. For me, the plot was enough to draw attention away from the punctuation and grammar mistakes, so I'll just choose to believe, that the historian Lord Verniers Alishe Someren was simply not found of punctuation.
I'll be sure to grab and read the remaining two books, whenever I see them on sale.