A review by ainsleym
The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock

adventurous dark fast-paced

4.0

The first section was my favorite by far, but I liked the middle story too. I thought the last story was too fast paced and had more self-referential humor than I expected from an Elric book: it wasn’t as subtle or interesting as the meta-commentary on the fantasy genre in some of Moorcock’s other books and I don’t tend to like blatant meta-commentary so I didn’t like that one as much, even though other people might. 

The writing when Elric

kills the guardian beast at Ashaneloon

is incredible and some of the best in the book.