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A review by r4storytime
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
3.0
To start with, please keep in mind 2 stars in Goodreads means "its ok". I would have rated it 2 1/2, but that wasn't an option.
Well, this was a bit of a struggle for me. Perhaps the page count in the kindle version was off? It says its 266 pages, but in reading it, it felt much much longer (Amazon's site says its 400 some odd pages??). In any case, there were some aspects of the book I liked. Coming off of a Sanderson YA book (Steelheart) I was much happier with the names/title which Donaldson used. I thought Lord Foul, the Despiser, the Unbeliever, etc was cool, as was the main character's name; not a typical fantasy novel name (of course not all the names were that good...seriously, was one character named "gay" and another "Lithe"?). The world building with the Land and magic was also interesting. And I also liked the personal struggle which Convenant deals with in the first couple of chapters.
But that struggle was what also made me not like the book so much. I couldn't wrap my head around his illness and why it made him act the way it did. So I couldn't understand the main character's inner motivation well and that made the book seem slower than it should have been.
Well, this was a bit of a struggle for me. Perhaps the page count in the kindle version was off? It says its 266 pages, but in reading it, it felt much much longer (Amazon's site says its 400 some odd pages??). In any case, there were some aspects of the book I liked. Coming off of a Sanderson YA book (Steelheart) I was much happier with the names/title which Donaldson used. I thought Lord Foul, the Despiser, the Unbeliever, etc was cool, as was the main character's name; not a typical fantasy novel name (of course not all the names were that good...seriously, was one character named "gay" and another "Lithe"?). The world building with the Land and magic was also interesting. And I also liked the personal struggle which Convenant deals with in the first couple of chapters.
But that struggle was what also made me not like the book so much. I couldn't wrap my head around his illness and why it made him act the way it did. So I couldn't understand the main character's inner motivation well and that made the book seem slower than it should have been.