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A review by malignantcactus
The Sword Defiant by Gareth Hanrahan
2.0
DNF at 35%.
This is hard and makes me sad. I love Hanrahan's Black Iron Legacy series. His creativity and imagination shine so brightly in the creature designs and world building that it's genuinely astonishing. He's shown diversity in writing different kinds of stories within those books. Just a great author.
But this book is boring. I was interested to see him take on a more classic fantasy setting, especially with the whole "heroes beat the bad guy forever ago, and this is the fallout" type story. I love that shit.
But The Sword Defiant does nothing with it. It's just blah to me. Alf is boring. The talking sword isn't utilized well. The past events about the Nine's journey and war sounded so much more interesting and fun. I'd have rather had that story first, and then this book so that I'm already invested in the characters and world by the time I see them 25 years later. I feel like I've missed everything.
It feels like a different author. Hanrahan's creativity isn't seen here at all.
This is hard and makes me sad. I love Hanrahan's Black Iron Legacy series. His creativity and imagination shine so brightly in the creature designs and world building that it's genuinely astonishing. He's shown diversity in writing different kinds of stories within those books. Just a great author.
But this book is boring. I was interested to see him take on a more classic fantasy setting, especially with the whole "heroes beat the bad guy forever ago, and this is the fallout" type story. I love that shit.
But The Sword Defiant does nothing with it. It's just blah to me. Alf is boring. The talking sword isn't utilized well. The past events about the Nine's journey and war sounded so much more interesting and fun. I'd have rather had that story first, and then this book so that I'm already invested in the characters and world by the time I see them 25 years later. I feel like I've missed everything.
It feels like a different author. Hanrahan's creativity isn't seen here at all.