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A review by mabusecast
Imaro by Charles Saunders
5.0
I found this to be a great slice of sword and sorcery fiction, largely on par with a lot of other authors of said genre I enjoy like Robert E Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, but written from the perspective of an African American writer and set in a fantasy version of pre-colonial Africa!
I would say that overall this largely lived up to the hype I've heard about it over the years, though if I had to criticize something about it I would say that a lot of the names of places and peoples in the book can start to swirl together at points, leading to some slight confusion in some points in the story especially since i read this via the audiobook version!
All that being said I really dug this book a lot and want to own the complete series of it, and hope someone reprints the 3rd and 4th books in the series in the near future!
Very excited to read 2nd book the "quest for cush" at some point!
I would say that overall this largely lived up to the hype I've heard about it over the years, though if I had to criticize something about it I would say that a lot of the names of places and peoples in the book can start to swirl together at points, leading to some slight confusion in some points in the story especially since i read this via the audiobook version!
All that being said I really dug this book a lot and want to own the complete series of it, and hope someone reprints the 3rd and 4th books in the series in the near future!
Very excited to read 2nd book the "quest for cush" at some point!