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A review by firstwords
The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
4.0
Much stronger finish, I was worried after the second book. This trilogy gets a lot of comparison to LotR, obviously. It is not in the same class, but it is in the same vein. If you want a LotR fix, almost like "LotR-Lite", this is probably a good pickup.
Definitely introduced characters again, and even whole subplots, that didnt need to be there. At one point, rearward movement of rear-echelon troops was described...never to come up again.
There's not a ton of trimming, but there is some. And there are a couple deux ex machina moments in there where I said "really? That's how you're going to resolve this?"
Definitely introduced characters again, and even whole subplots, that didnt need to be there. At one point, rearward movement of rear-echelon troops was described...never to come up again.
There's not a ton of trimming, but there is some. And there are a couple deux ex machina moments in there where I said "really? That's how you're going to resolve this?"