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Shadow & Claw
by Gene Wolfe
DID NOT FINISH
I initially enjoyed this book. The language was beautiful, it started with an unusual antihero, and the world building seemed fun. There were hints at Urth being the future of our Earth and mentions of space travel.
Alas, the pace slows down toward the end of book 1 and remains slow, to the point where it becomes mostly a chain of stretched out uneventful episodes, intermingled with the odd relationships of the protagonist with women. Dorcas, the one he really loves, while he likes to have sex with Jolena with the "breasts like melon" and Thecla his first swarm, whom he helped to suicide and still misses.
Terminus Est, the sword of the protagonist, seems to be his real love though, it's mentioned almost on every single of the long 400 pages that I endured to finish the book, in the hope of something exciting to happen.
I don't understand why Neil Gaiman endorsed this book.
Alas, the pace slows down toward the end of book 1 and remains slow, to the point where it becomes mostly a chain of stretched out uneventful episodes, intermingled with the odd relationships of the protagonist with women. Dorcas, the one he really loves, while he likes to have sex with Jolena with the "breasts like melon" and Thecla his first swarm, whom he helped to suicide and still misses.
Terminus Est, the sword of the protagonist, seems to be his real love though, it's mentioned almost on every single of the long 400 pages that I endured to finish the book, in the hope of something exciting to happen.
I don't understand why Neil Gaiman endorsed this book.